13.11.1995
A new fishing treaty between the European Union and Morocco is signed for 4 years beginning on December 1, 1995.
13.11.1995
The Algerian daily newspaper "El Watan" announces that Hassan II would
be seriously ill and transported urgently by special aircraft in a
French hospital.
13.11.1995
The Sahrawi Information Ministery announces in a
press release that an intense repression
campaign was started in the South-Moroccan city of Tan-Tan, after
pacific manifestations on November 7, organised by Sahrawi students.
13.11.1995
The Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz arrives
in the United States for a visit. In a
statement he repeats that Morocco tries to rig the pull by flooding the
electoral list with more than 100'000 of its nationals.
14.11.1995
Press briefing in Paris of members of the Moroccan "Consultative Council
on Human Rights", created 1990 by King Hassan II. They try to refute
the affirmations of the
report of Human Rights Watch. The Moroccan delegation plans to head for Washington to visit Human Rights Watch offices to discuss their report.
Identification process.
The debates on the proposals of Mr. Boutros-Ghali
concerning the identification procedures of 100'000 Moroccan applicants
are going on. Morocco and its allies, first of them France, are
refusing this proposals and lobbying the Security Council. Morocco has
started a large diplomatic campaign in Europe and USA to make agree his
point of view.
Erik Jensen, Active Special UN Representative for Western Sahara, was on
Nov. 11 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, to hand over to the Sahrawi
authorities a message of Mr Boutros-Ghali. The report from the
Secretary-General on Western Sahara, due for the end of this week, would
be postponed for a week to 10 days, because the consultations are
still going on.
19.11.1995
The Polisario Front has handed to the International Red Cross Committee 185 prisoners of war,
released 1989 but never accepted by the Moroccan authorities. This
group was repatriated in two aircrafts of the US and Argentinian
military air forces. A Moroccan official, who wishes to remain
anonymous, confirmed their arrival at the Ben Guerir military base
near Marrakesh.