WEEKLY NEWS

 

WEEK 42

14 - 20 October 1996

 

Headlines

Congress of Sahrawi Youth Organisation

Declaration of the President of SADR

Meetings between Morocco and Polisario

UMA summit

Liberations of Sahrawi POWs

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08-11.10.96
Congress of Sahrawi Youth Organisation
The Fourth Congress of UJSARIO, the Sahrawi Youth Organisation, dedicated to the memory of the martyrs, adopted u.o. some recommandations like these: to mobilise the youth for the struggle for independance, to reinforce the contacts with the Sahrawi students all over the world and help them to resolve their problems, to give particuliar attention to the place of women in the society and within the Youth Organisation, to create a Scout organisation, to take permanent contacts with the youth in the territories occupied by Morocco. The Congress received numerous solidarity messages. It exprimed its solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Eastern Timor, Cuba and Libya.

14.10.96
Declaration of the President of SADR
The Polisario Front cannot give any additional concessions to facilitate the task or cooperate with the UN mission. This statement was made by the Sahrawi president Mohamed Abdelaziz. In an exclusive press interview to the Algerian news agency (APS), he said the current situation and the cease-fire in the Western Sahara were only in the interest of the Moroccan side. In the same interview, Mr Abdelaziz stressed the need to implement the UN plan on the referendum on the Sahrawi people's selfdetermination, and to intensify political contacts to find a negotiated solution between the Sahrawi and Moroccan sides, with the aim of reaching a settlement which respects the rights of the Sahrawi people.

15.-16.10.96
Meetings between Morocco and Polisario
Three leaders of the Polisario arrived on 15th October in El Ayoun aboard a UN plane. The delegation made up of Bachir Mustapha Sayed, Mahfoud Ali Beida and Ibrahim Ghali continued next day its trip to Rabat, where they have to meet Moroccan officials. This visit was neither confirmed nor denied by Morocco. It is the sixth in the last few weeks. Nothing is known about the content of the discussions (AFP).
In a communique published in Alger by APS, the Polisario denied the trip. but exprimed its "disponibility to every serious and constructive dialogue with Morocco in order to reach a fair solution to the Western Sahara conflict, in accordance with the UN peace plan" (AFP).

17.10.96
UMA summit
Algeria proposed to receive a UMA summit on November 15th. Morocco is invited an seems to have given its o.k. (AFP)

18.10.96
Liberations of Sahrawi POWs
Morocco should liberate soon 47 Sahrawi POWs under the control of the ICRC, family members of the prisoners announced in El Ayoun. According to those families, the 47 prisoners are jailed at Agadir. Among them: Mohamed Ould Dahbi, Demba Ould Aita (two military commanders) and Souaid Brahim Ould Zine (governor). The prisoners themselves have announced to their parents that they have no longer to go to Agadir (650 km from El Ayoun) to visit them. But the exact days of liberation is not known neither the destination of the liberated prisoners. Nothing is known about an eventual liberation of Moroccan POWs by the Polisario (AFP).

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