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Morocco 'extends its hand' to the Polisario, insists on autonomy 3/17/2008
Minister of the Interior Chakib Benmoussa on Saturday said Morocco continues to extend its hand to the other party (the Polisario separatists) to reach together a solution to the Sahara dispute in the framework of the North African country's proposed autonomy to this territory. Speaking in New York on the eve of the fourth round of UN-led negotiations on the Sahara in Manhasset, (March 16-18), the Moroccan Minister who is leading the Moroccan delegation to these talks, insisted that Morocco's proposal constitutes a realistic platform for a final settlement of the 32-year old dispute over the Sahara. A former Spanish colony, the territory was ceded to Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid Accords.
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Corcas chairman calls on Polisario, Algeria to give up 'unworkable claims' 3/17/2008
Morocco called, here Sunday, upon the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" and Algeria to give up "unworkable claims" and show good faith in negotiations to move forward towards a consensus-based political solution to the 32-year Sahara dispute.
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Negotiations in Manhasset resume on Sunday 3/14/2008
4th round Negotiations over the Sahara to resume Sunday, in Manhasset, near New York, as agreed at the end of the last meeting held from January 7-9.
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Mr. Harzenni: Algeria is "responsible for" the suffering of the Moroccans detained Tindouf 3/12/2008
The chairman of the Advisory Council for Human Rights, Mr. Ahmed Harzanni said that Algeria is "responsible for" the suffering of the Moroccans detained in the Tindouf camps . Speaking at the Hiwar programme aired by the first television channel Tuesday evening, in response to a question about the possibility to the use international law by Morocco regarding "Tindouf detention center" like Guantanamo, he said " we have as Moroccans to focus on this issue" stressing that "the brotherly Algerian state bear responsibility for "the suffering of the Moroccans detained in Tindouf camps."
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CSDDH calls for putting an end to human rights abuses in Tindouf camps 3/11/2008
The Sahrawi Group for Human Rights Defence (CSDDH) launched on Monday from Geneva, which was holding the 7th session of the Human Rights Council, an urgent appeal to the UN Secretary General and the international community to intervene in order to put an end to human rights violations by "Polisario", whose victims are sequestered in the Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria). The Group also calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and human rights NGOs to "initiate an emergency surveys to discover the serious abuses that continue to be committed in the camps".
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