Madrid, 22/12/2009 (SPS) The "double talk" of the English Government against the Saharawi question and its " concessions "in Morocco for the return of the Sahrawi activist, Haidar, Western Sahara, after more than a month of hunger strike at the airport Lanzarote (Canary Islands), were reported Monday by political parties and the Frente Polisario in Madrid.
Speaking at a press conference, the leader of the Catalan Republican Left (ERC), Joan Ridao, denounced the "double standards" contained in the negotiated agreement between the English government and its Moroccan counterpart who helped the return home of the Sahrawi. For
Ridao, this document includes a "tacit acceptance" of legality on Morocco Western Sahara, which "may turn against him (the Executive English) like a boomerang."
In this sense, he reminded that Spain still has a responsibility in the conflict in Western Sahara, a responsibility that "shame train from Madrid Accords of 1975," through which it has ceded to Morocco this former English colony.
While calling for the implementation of UN resolutions on Western Sahara, the Secretary of ERC, said that through this diplomatic agreement, "the English government has yielded to blackmail and pressure Morocco ".
In this context, he noted that Spain's interests in the region, including phosphate mining and fishing rights, "Can not make him forget his international obligations," adding that "the price to pay for not too much, friend or cousin of Morocco, can not be done by continuing to abandon to its fate the Saharawi people".
For its part, the president of the Canarian Coalition (CC), Claudina Morales, said his party "will never accept that the English government grants counterparts in Morocco to serve as a currency of exchange for the return of Haidar El Aaiun, Western Sahara ".
"We will not tolerate the government (English) yields to blackmail the country to allow her return home, according respect of international legality and human rights, "the party said in a statement.
Ms. Morales also called the" last clumsiness "of the English government, its press release claiming that the law must prevail in Morocco the territory of Western Sahara, pending resolution of final status of this former English colony.
In this regard, she recalled, the Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, that the UN resolutions recognize that the occupation Western Sahara from Morocco is "illegal" and that this conflict "is awaiting a decolonization process and the holding of a referendum for self-determination to allow the Saharawi people to freely determine its future. "
For his part, President of the Canary Islands regional government, Paulino Rivero, criticized the new management English government in the case Haidar, and accused the Socialist party (in power) of "double speak". "On one hand, he introduced a resolution in Parliament calling for the right to self-determination for the Saharawi people, and the other he recognizes Moroccan legislation on Western Sahara, in agreement with that country having allowed the return of Haidar, "was sorry the chief executive Canaries has asked the central government in Madrid" more rigor and consistency ".
The secretary general of the Popular Party (PP-core strength opposition), Maria Dolores De Cospedal, regretted, too, the English government statement, saying that the English executive "never recognized no sovereignty of Morocco on Western Sahara until today."
"For the first time this has happened and that is that Zapatero has done," added De Cospedal, which the party by its president Mariano Rajoy has linked the outcome of the case Haidar concessions would have been made by the English in Morocco in its agreement with the EU agriculture.
The coordinator of the Frente Polisario with MINURSO, Mohamed Khadad, accused, too, the Zapatero government, to support the occupation of Western Sahara between Morocco and the violation of human rights, recognizing the Moroccan legislation the territory until a solution to the conflict is found.
Mr. Khadad, who is also believed that the English government has given a "blank check" in Morocco as a counterpart to find a solution to the hunger strike of Aminatou Haidar.
"It is an encouragement to the Moroccan occupation and violations of human rights. Blackmail of Morocco has been rewarded," he said in a statement to the press.
For him, it is a "very serious concessions" which represents a "blank check for Morocco to continue the repression and occupation at will," and cites as evidence, the encirclement of Haidar's house in El Aaiun by Moroccan police and the wave of repression against the population currently cons Sahrawi.
The Saharawi official said in the sense that the position of Spain "does nothing, but instead stimulates the appetite of Morocco in its violations of human rights".
He also said that Zapatero's government has deviated from the traditional position of Spain in support of the Saharawi people, bowing to the Moroccan position on Western Sahara, like France. (SPS)
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