Madrid Conference.

Madrid, 11/11/2005. The president of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdel-Aziz declared that “the Madrid Agreements of (1975) violated the international legality and tarnished the prestige of France” estimating that a durable peace in the region depends on the respect of the international legality and the Security Council resolutions which call for the exercise by the Saharawi people of his right to self-determination.

“The Madrid Agreements violated the international legality and tarnished the prestige of certain civilized nations who contributed to the progress of the humanity, such as France, who intervened militarily in the conflict and continues today within the UN Security Council to support Morocco, preventing thus the advent of the peace in the region” underlined the president of the Republic in the opening of the International Conference for the support of the Saharawi people this Friday in Madrid.

The Conference coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the Madrid tripartite Agreements signed the 14th November 1975 between Spain, Morocco and Mauritania, which put the seals on the military invasion and the partition of the territory of Western Sahara.

For Abdelaziz, these illegal Agreements “had unleashed an unjust war which transformed thousands of children into orphans and hundreds of women widows” and obliged the Saharawis to “bring about an independence national war in very hard conditions” in which thousands of Saharawis lost their lives in the battle fields for freedom” while “ tens others lost theirs in Moroccan secret prisons” “where the young Lembarki assassinated as a result of torture which was inflicted on him during his detention by the Moroccan occupying forces, October the 30th 2005”.

The President has, moreover, deeply regretted that the Polisario exemplary conduct and its enormous concessions, did not serve yet for that the UN to “put the necessary pressure on Morocco in order to respect the Human rights of our populations residing in the occupied zones”.

According to Abdelaziz, the international Community ought to restore a “just” peace in the region in conformity with the principles and resolutions of the UN Security Council concerning the decolonization and not an erroneous interpretation based on relations of the actual and future forces in the region.

He warns “the one willing to manipulate these criteria to sabotage a possible peace perspective” the one “who only sows winds today, will harvest storms tomorrow”.

The international Conference for the solidarity with the Saharawi people, which is held under the theme “30 years of injustice and suffering! 30 years are enough! for the decolonization of Western Sahara” has been attended by leaderships of all Spanish political parties represented at the Parliament, Trade Unions organizations and solidarity movements with the Saharawi people at the European and Spanish level, personalities from the cultural and juridical milieus.

It will be followed, Saturday by an imposing march in the Spanish capital to remind the political rulers of the Spanish peninsula “the historical, political and ethical responsibility of Spain, in view of its status of a colonial power of Western Sahara until 1976”, in the settlement of the conflict, indicated the organizers and to denounce the Moroccan repressive practices in Western Sahara”

Translated from French. Source SPS.
Nafaa Mohamed Salem