November 2015

Algiers, November 24, 2015 (SPS) .- The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on Monday received the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, as part of a new tour to the region to relaunch negotiations between Polisario Front and Morocco.
 

The meeting was attended by the Algerian Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ramtan Lamamra and Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs, Abdelkader Msahel.
 

Algiers, November 24, 2015 (SPS) .- The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on Monday received the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, as part of a new tour to the region to relaunch negotiations between Polisario Front and Morocco.
 

The meeting was attended by the Algerian Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ramtan Lamamra and Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs, Abdelkader Msahel.
 

ALGIERS, November 24, 2015 (SPS) - The head of Swedish Social Democratic Youth League for Western Sahara's delegation, Hmida Benatallah, said Monday the Saharawi cause is under media blackout.

He also added that an action is undertaken now to shed light on this just cause to arouse the appropriate interest, considering Saharawi people's sufferings. (SPS)

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ALGIERS,November 24, 2015 (SPS) - Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon intends to travel soon to the region to try and relaunch negotiations between Morocco and Polisario Front as part of the UN process aimed at finding a solution to this conflict.

“Ban Ki-moon wants to visit the region in the coming months to bring, himself, a contribution to the search of a solution to this conflict that has lasted too long,” said the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General to Western Sahara, Christopher Ross.

Algiers, 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - The United States of America has announced to grant more than 4 million dollars to the Sahrawi people to support the humanitarian aid efforts following the floods in the Sahrawi refugee camps in the region of Tindouf, within the next three months.

 Algiers, November 23, 2015 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, arrived Monday in Algiers in the first stage of his new tour in the region in an attempt to revive negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco.

Shaheed El Hafed, November 23, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received Monday the credentials of the Ambassador of Ecuador to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mr. Jose Rafael Serrano.

The reception ceremony of Ambassador Jose Rafael Serrano was held at the SADR Presidency, where he presented his credentials to the President of the Republic as the Ambassador of Ecuador to the Saharawi Republic.  

Windhoek, 23 Nov 015 (SPS) - Namibian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called  for the “immediate” implementation of the UN Referendum on Western Sahara and the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions on Palestine.

In an intervention, during the annual meeting of the diplomatic corps accredited in Windhoek, Ms. Nandi-Ndaitwah stressed that the prolonged human suffering of the Saharawi and the Palestinians people is not conducive to international peace and security.

Algiers, 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, hailed Sunday, in Algiers, Algeria’s “unfailing and unqualified” support to the Sahrawi cause in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and international law.

Bir Lahlou, 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz reiterated Western Sahara’s support to the personal special envoy of the United Nations Secretary General, Christopher Ross, in order to facilitate the relaunch of negotiations with Morocco likely to allow the Sahrawi people’s self-determination.

Port Louis (Mauritius) November 23, 2015 (SPS) - The Government of the Republic of Mauritius has restored its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

In a statement issued Friday Council of Ministers in the Government of the Republic of Mauritius renewed its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic “as a full sovereignty state, based on the orientations of the government to establish new relations across the world”.

Algiers, 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, was received Sunday by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Brussels, 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini reiterated EU's support for a "just, lasting and mutually political solution, which will allow the people of Western Sahara to exercise their right to self-determination."

Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), 23 Nov 2015 (SPS) - Chairwoman of the Algerian Red Crescent (CRA) Saida Benhabiles, reiterated to the Sahrawi officials Sunday at Shaheed El-Hafed, Sahrawi refugee camp, the constant position of Algeria regarding the correctness of the Saharawi cause.

Moscow, (Russia) -The head of the International Department of the Russian Communist Party's Central Committee, Andrei Filipov, has reiterated his party's position in favour of Western Sahara people's right to self-determination, stressing the need to continue contacts between his political group and the Polisario Front to raise consciousness among Russian public opinion.

New York (United Nations), 22 Nov 2015 (SPS) - Polisario Front called on the United Nations Security Council to break the current impasse in the peace process in Western Sahara because of Morocco’s intransigence, adding that this conflict “cannot be infinitely extended.”

Bir Lehlou, 22 Nov 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has emphasized, in a letter to United Nations Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, received Sunday by SPS, that the conflict cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely.

Bir Lehlou, 22 Nov 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has reiterated support of the Polisario Front for Personal Envoy Mr. Christopher Ross, in a letter to United Nations Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, received Sunday by SPS.

Washington, 22 Nov 2015 (SPS) - The United Nations Secretary General's Personal Envoy, Christopher Ross will start a ten-day trip to the region on Monday in a bid to resume talks between the Polisario Front and Rabat.

The UN envoy will hold discussions with officials of Morocco and the Polisario Front, and will also go to Algeria and Mauritania as observer countries of the peace process in Western Sahara, Polisaro Front's representative to the UN Ahmed Boukhari indicated, without elaborating about the stages of the trip.

Bir Lahlou, November 20, 2015 (SPS) President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent Friday a message of condolence to his Malian counterpart, H.E. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, following the terrorist attack on Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, which killed tens of innocent people.