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[SPS]The Minister for Asia Affairs, Mr Mouloud Said, visited Friday Tokyo, Japan, and on the course of his visit he met at the parliament with Members of Senate and parliament....

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The Saharawi National Council (SNC) will hold Wednesday its spring session, which will focus on laws and draft laws submitted by the government and members of the Saharawi parliament....

[SPS]Addis Ababa -Minister of Trade Abeida Sheikh took part Sunday in the Extraordinary Session of the Conference of the African Union Ministers of Trade, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, accompanied by Ambassador to the African Union and Ethiopia Lamine Baali, and expert in trade Enguia Mohammed Zergo....

[SPS]London -British holidaymakers are being urged to respond to the situation in Western Sahara by boycotting its occupier, Morocco, as a destination, wrote British national daily newspaper the Guardian in its Sunday edition by chief reporter for the Observer Tracy McVeigh....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -The Council of Ministers has strongly condemned Thursday Morocco's serious escalating repression against innocent Saharawis in the occupied citites of El Aaiun, Smara, Dakhla, Boujdour and others, denouncing the tight siege it imposes over the whole occupied part of Western Sahara....

[SPS]Smara -A 29-year-old young Saharawi died in a landmine blast, which occurred in the suburbs of the occupied city of Smara, said a Saharawi media source from the city....

[SPS]Addis Ababa -A delegation of the Saharawi Republic (SADR) takes part at the Extraordinary Session of the Conference of the African Union Ministers of Trade, convening from 23rd to 28th April 2014 in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia....

[SPS]New York -The Security Council of the United Nations has adjourned to next Tuesday the vote on a U.S. draft resolution on Western Sahara regarding the renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), said Reuters on Thursday....

[SPS]Abuja -The Sahrawi Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Ubbi Bacharaya Bachir have warned Tuesday of a new Rwanda genocide in Western Sahara, if the Security Council's Member States, especially France, do not allow for human rights monitoring being included in the MINURSO mandate....

[SPS]The U.S. ONG "Washington Friends of Western Sahara" has announced its participation in the annual Holidays In Peace programme by hosting 10 Saharawi children from the Saharawi refugee camps for two months this summer....

[SPS]Buenos Aires -The Argentine Workers' Central Union (Spanish acronym; CTA) has urged the government of its country to vote in favour of expanding the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in the occupied Saharawi territories....

[SPS]The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Western Sahara is an officially recognised cross-party body of the UK parliament whose purpose is to promote issues of mutual concern between British MPs and Western Sahara. In the pursuit of this mandate, the Group had long wished to send a delegation to the Occupied Territory of Western Sahara to witness the human rights situation facing the Saharawi people...

[SPS]Bagnolet -Several international organizations, of which Human Rights Watch, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and 114 associations and trade unions from 22 countries have called upon the UN Secretary General and members of the Security Council to give "precise information" on the human rights violations committed by Morocco against Saharawi civilians as, said AFASPA in a statement...

[SPS]Algiers -Ambassador of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Algeria Brahim Ghali dubbed Monday "positive" the report of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a Security Council meeting as he presented the Western Sahara issue as a "decolonization issue."...

[SPS]Washington -The U.S. non-governmental organization Not Forgotten International has expressed, in a letter sent to the 2nd International Conference in Support of Saharawi Women's Resistance, held on the current April 17-20 in the occupied city of El Aaiun, "continuing support and commitment" the just struggle of the Saharawi people....

[SPS]El Aaiun -Dozens of Saharawi protestors came out Sunday in peaceful demonstration held in the beach of Foum el-Oued (which means; mouth of the valley) western of the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, to demand freedom and independence of the Saharawi people....

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has expressed condemnation at the visit of Ivorian Interior Minister to the occupied city of Dakhla and its exploitation by Morocco as propaganda in the official media to cover up the truth and legitimize its illegal occupation of Western Sahara, in a letter Sunday to Ivorian President...

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[SPS]Birlehlu -The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, congratulated his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on the occasion of his re-election as president of Algeria for fourth term, in a letter Friday....

[SPS]Birlehlu -President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz expressed the condemnation of the Polisario Front and its rejection to the visit of the King of Morocco to the occupied city of Dakhla, considering it as an act of aggression, in a letter Saturday to the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki- Moon....