WEEKLY NEWS

WEEK 46

11-17 November 1996

Headlines French editor arrested in Morocco Meeting 22th European Conference of support to the Sahrawi people, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

12.11.96
French editor arrested in Morocco and expelled
The French editor Antoine Gallimard, invited to the Salon du livre at Casablanca, has been detained for some hours by Moroccan police. He edited in 1990 the book " Notre ami le roi " written by Gilles Perrault which denounced the violations of Human Rights in Morocco.

3.11.96
Meeting
The UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali met at Rome Moroccos Prime Minister Abdelatif Filali. According to official Moroccan sources the subject were the actual developpments of the situation in Western Sahara.

15-17.11.96
22th European Conference of support to the Sahrawi people, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
During 3 days, about 250 participants from Spain, Italy, Beelgium, France,Great Britain,Austria, portugal, Sveden, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico, United States, Algeria and Western Sahara studied the actual situation and examined in different workshops how to continue and increase their support to the sahrawi people as well on the political as the humanitarian level. In the same time international lawyers founded the International Association of Lawyers for Western Sahara.

(The ARSO staff participating at this event is just coming back home now, so it will take a few days to give more informations about this important event)

NEW PUBLICATIONS

• United Nation's Fourth Committee considers framework through which Western Sahara might achieve self-determination, Gilonne d'Origny, George Street Journal, Providence, USA, (November 8-14).

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