WEEKLY NEWS

WEEK 39, 23-29.09.1996

Headlines

MINURSO financing

Tanzanian foreign minister's visit to Algeria

Human rights

Ceuta and Melilla

Meetings between Spain and SADR

Spanish Foreign Minister to meet Sahrawi leader

Algerian intervention

Spain wants referendum

Western Sahara on INTERNET

18.09.96
MINURSO financing
The General Assembly authorised the Secretary-General to commit approximately 10 million $ to finance the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

21.09.96
Tanzanian foreign minister's visit to Algeria
Tanzania has expressed its support for the full implementation of the UN peace plan for setting the issue of the Western Sahara.

22.09.96
Human rights
The African Human and People Rights League, in an appeal to the U.N. asks for an urgent international action in favor of human rights in Africa, especially Western Sahara, Burundi and Somalia. It declares that it is politically, legally, morally and humanly inconceivable that the U.N. are still not able to realize a referendum in W.S.

23.09.96
Ceuta and Melilla
The Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister A. Filali declares at the 51th Assembly of the U.N. that the recuperation of the cities of Ceuta and Melila, belonging officially to Spain, will take place by negociations. King Hassan asks for a Spanish-Moroccan committee in charge to resolve this problem. In his answer the Spanish ambassador to the U.N. reaffirms that the two territories belong to Spain.

25.09.96
Meetings between Spain and SADR
The Spanish Foreign Minister Abel Matutes meet at New York Salem Ould Salek, Minister at the Presidency of SADR, who informs him about the recent meetings with the Moroccan government. The Sahrawi responsible exprimes the wish of the Sahrawis to pursuie the speaks with Morocco, adding that the delay of the referendum creates an increasing frustration among the Sahrawi population.

25.09.96
Spanish Foreign Minister to meet Sahrawi leader
Abel Matutes reveals that he will soon meet the Sahrawi president and secretary-general of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz (Algerian radio).

25.09.96
Algerian intervention
The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs declares at the UN General Assembly that his country will continue to support the UN-OUA peace plan in order to get to the Sahrawi people its right of selfdetermination in a fair and free referendum. He appeals the two parties to go ahead with a constructive and responsible dialogue.

27.09.96
Spain wants referendum
In his declaration at the U.N. General Assembly, the Foreign Minster of Spain repeats thatSpain is worry about the delay of the referendum but glad about the recent contacts between Morocco and the Polisario, and wishes the continuation of the operation of self-determination as soon as possible and in the best conditions, under the supervision of the UN.

WESTERN SAHARA on INTERNET

Since the creation of our Web site WESTERN SAHARA in june 1995, some other Web sites or pages appeared on the Net. Here we present those we know at this time:

WESTERN SAHARA by One World Online, UK

URL: http://www.oneworld.org/guides/sahara/index.html

AL AWDA, Associazione di solidarietà con il popolo Sahraui, Catania, Italia

URL: http://www.copin.it/turboprint/sahar.html

KALAMA, Ass. di solidarietà con il popolo Sahraui, Lucca, Italia

URL: http://www.freeworld.it/peacelink/kalama/sahara.html

Informationen aus der Westsahara, Wien, Austria

URL: http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/"signato/sahara/

War in the Western Sahara, London, UK

URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dmacdonald/saharawi.htm

Western Sahara Links by Sahrawi Aid Project, UK

URL: http://www.eaglenet.co.uk/sapn/index.html

Radioafición en la Republica Arabe Sahraui Democratica, España

URL: http://www.jet.es/rasd/rasdpre.html

Asociación galega de amigos del Sáhara, Vigo, España

URL: http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/"vabreu/RASD/rasd.html

Western Sahara Homepage in " Exchange projekt FREEDOM", Belgium

URL: http://ruby.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/"rib/sahraoui/ws1.htm

NEW PUBLICATIONS

- Die Unabhängigkeit ist nicht mehr als ein erster Schritt, Mathis Sibylle, Die Wochenzeitung,CH-Zürich, 27.9.96
- Un popolo da salvare, Giovanelli Paolo, Vita, Italy, 31.8.96
- 1976-1996, lotta e speranza. Le aspettative del popolo sahraui tradite dall'ONU, Philippe Pampiglione Jacqueline, Africa e Mediterraea, 2, juin 1996, p. 57-58

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