Dar es Salaam, June 25, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, called Monday on the President of the Federal Republic of Tanzania, Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, to support efforts of the Saharawi Republic to get full membership in the United Nations, similar to the critical position adopted by African Unity in 1983 to accept membership of the Saharawi state, during a speech delivered at a lunch hosted by the Tanzanian President on honor of President Mohamed Abdelaziz and the delegation accompanying him.
“Your Excellency, we count largely on an African attitude, with Tanzania at the lead, as it did in the past, through an advanced step, which could be the request that the Saharawi Republic be granted full membership in the United Nations,” said the President Mohamed Abdelaziz.
“We come here, to Tanzania, because we are confident that it will spare no effort to protect the African right, and that it will not hesitate in repeating the same decisive attitude it adopted in 1983 in the face of all forms of colonial intransigence and arrogance. There is a need for such an intervention today, because Moroccan government has reneged to its international commitments and is seeking to confiscate the sacred rights of the Saharawi African people to freedom and independence,” added the President in his speech to his Tanzanian counterpart.
He also expressed certainty that such a requirement “will reinforce the legitimate position of the Saharawi struggle and the Polisario Front, as the legitimate and the only representative of the Saharawi people, which will celebrate next year, the 40th anniversary of its foundation. It will also reinvigorate the Saharawi Republic, as the consecration of the will and the aspiration of this people, will celebrate and as an irreversible national, regional and international reality.”
He indicated that whilst Moroccan government “practices flagrant injustice and refuses to allow the Saharawi people one day of democracy to freely choose their future, Africa should show no tolerance, and it’s requested to respond decisively and urgently,” recalling to the OAU-UN joint efforts culminated with the two parties agreeing to a peace plan, and pointing to the Moroccan obstructions and procrastinations that stood in the path of implementing resolutions of the United Nations, and before that Organization of African Unity.
“Moroccan government has always strived to undermine those efforts, and declared openly its rejection of the principle of a referendum, which is the core and the foundation of the solution. And today, Moroccan Government has decided to end its cooperation with ambassador Christopher Ross (USA), the UN SG’s personal envoy to Western Sahara, and therefore, bringing the negotiating process to a stalemate, in a dangerous attempt to create an impasse and undermine efforts leading to a just and lasting peace,” underlined Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
It should be recalled that the President Mohamed Abdelaziz arrived Sunday afternoon in Dar es Salaam, capital of the Federal Republic of Tanzania, accompanied by high-level delegation in a two-day official visit at the invitation of the President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. (SPS)
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