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Polisario Thirteenth Congress: commencement of committees’ work

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Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 17, 2011 (SPS) - Work of the committees emerging from the Polisario 13th Congress commenced Saturday morning, where they started to examine the proposals presented by the delegates during the political seminars and included within the documents presented by the Preparatory Committee.

In the occupied territories committee, delegates focused on the ways to support and advance the uprising in the Saharawi occupied territories through framing the Saharawi element in order to be able to adapt with changing circumstances.

Delegates calls to include the Intifada and its history to the curriculums in the national schools as to focus on the media phase to face the media blackout imposed by the Moroccan occupation authorities over the occupied Western Sahara.

With regard to the committee of basic law and criticizing the experience, the issues of activating the organs of censorship and account, determine the term for the Secretary-General of the Frente Polisario renewable and increase the representation of the occupied territories at the level of the National Secretariat from 12 to 16 members have been reviewed.

In the committee of action programme, delegates examined the documents and enrich it by debates focusing on raising the readiness of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army, give greater importance to the Intifada and activists in the occupied territory, pressurize Moroccan government by using the various international organs and platforms in order to protect the natural resources from looting, contracting with companies of friendly countries to explore for wealth in the in the liberated territories and give special care to national rural, reconstruction of the liberated territories and maintain an environmental.

Committee of messages and recommendations, delegates gave importance to the discourse of escalation in body of the letters and communiqué of the Congress, calling on the international community to assume its legal and historic responsibilities with regard to the protection of Saharawi civilians from Moroccan oppression.

They demanded that Spain, under leadership of Popular Party, will live up to the role played by Portugal towards the decolonization of Timor-Leste, urging it to reflect its obligations concerning the respect for legitimacy and enabling the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination. (SPS)

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