Shahid Alhafed, March16, 2013(SPS) (SPS) - The Presidency of the Republic has expressed its condolences over the death of the Saharawi Ambassador to Angola, Luchaa Mohamed Lamin Millad, "With great regret and dismay, we have received today the sad news of the death of the SADR ambassador in the Republic of Angola, Mohamed Lamin Luchaa Meilad,
"With great regret and sorrow, we have received today sad news of the death of the SADR ambassador in the Republic of Angola, Luchaa Mohamed Lamin Meilad, known as Obeid Luchaa. On this painful occasion, we express our deepest sympathy and convey the deepest condolences to his family and to all the Saharawi people ". said a statement issued on Saturday by the Presidency.
"We have lost a great activist and defender of the cause of his people. He was a man who devoted his life and worked with dedication, sincerity, seriousness, loyalty and enthusiasm to defend the right of the Saharawi people to freedom and ndependence.”
Luchaa Obeid was one young members of the vanguard organization for the Liberation of Western Sahara, and he and the late Mahfoud Ali Beiba coordinated with Sahrawi youth who demonstrated in the city of Tantan in May 1972.
He attended the founding congress of the Polisario Front in May 10, 1973.
The deceased who was in charge of the Spanish version of the magazine (May 20), and coordinator with the Mauritanian national movement, chaired the Second Congress of the Polisario Front, on August 1974, where he was elected as a member of the Political Office until the third Congress and worked in the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polisario in the seventies and eighties.
He was appointed the first Saharawi Ambassador in Angola in 1977, and then served as ambassador to several African Countries and Polisario representative in many European countries.
The deceased was born in December 17, 1952 in Smara, he was married with five children. (SPS)
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