Identification
In a letter addressed to the acting President of the Security Council,
on December first by Mr Bachir Sayed, sahrawi coordinator with MINURSO,
the Polisario Front explains its point of vue about the last report of
the Secretary General (S/1995/986 of 24.11.95).
This report had "to produce specific and detailed proposals to resolve
the problems hindering the complession of the identification process."
Concerning the tribes which were not included in the spanish census of
1974 and the 100'000 applicants living in Morocco, Mr Boutros-Ghali took
following proposition: the identification will go on also with the
participation of one part only and on the basis of a not clearly
definited documentation.
For the Polisario Front "this proposition is not objective nor
realistic". It is not the result of any consultation between the
parties, but only the response to the Morroccan refusal of any change of
the proceeding.
The Polisario Front repeats his attachment to the proposition made by the Secretary General in his letter of October 27 which
required in the contested cases spanish documents. It refuses to
participate to the identification when based only on the oral testimony
of one Cheikh, designed by Morocco, unless this testimony would be
clearly shored up by documents delivered by the spanish authorities, who
administrated the territory up to 1974.
Facing the turning round of the S.G. between October 27 and November 24,
the Polisario Front asks finally the question about the value of
future decisions of the Secretary General in front of a Moroccan
refusal.