June 2016

Shahid El Hafed (Refugee Camps), June 4, 2016 (SPS) - Algeria will always support Western Sahara cause until Saharawi people fulfill their objectives, the speaker of the Council of the Nation (upper house of Parliament), Abdelkader Bensalah, said Friday in Chahid El Hafed.
"We will never stop backing the just Saharawi cause until the achievement of Saharawi people's expectations," Bensalah told reporters following discussions with the acting Saharawi president, Khatri Addouh.

Shahid El Hafid (Refugee Camps), June 4, 2016 (SPS) – The Sahrawi people paid, on Friday in Shahid El Hafid a last homage to their late president Mohamed Abdelaziz, died last Tuesday following a long illness.
The body of the deceased was welcomed by thousands of Sahrawi refugees expressing rejecting to "all alternatives but self-determination to the Sahrawi people."
The body was presented at the headquarters of the Sahrawi Presidency to allow the local population and the foreign personalities to pay final tribute to the late Front Polisario leader.

Manila, June 3, 2016 (SPS) – The Philippine Communist Party has sent a message of condolences to Sahrawi Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb-Omar over the passing of President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
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Stockholm, June 3, 3016 (SPS) - The Swedish Social Democratic Party has expressed profound condolences on the passing away of President of the Republic and Secretary General, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a letter.
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Stockholm, June 3, 2016 (SPS) - The Swedish Foreign Ministry has expressed deep condolences on the passing away of President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz.

Stockholm, June 3, 2016 (SPS) – The Olof Palme International Center has expressed its deepest condolences on the passing away of the late President of the Republic and Secretary General, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a letter to the Sahrawi government and Polisario Front.
Following is the full text of the letter:

London, June 3, 2016 (SPS) – The Western Sahara Campaign UK has mourned the passing away of President of Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a statement. 
Below is the full text of the statement:

Makwaia Wa Kuhenga/ 03 June 2016/ Daily News-Tanzania
BREAKING news: “The leader of Western Sahara Independence Movement has died after a long illness. Mohamed Abdul-Aziz (68) was Secretary General of the Polisario Front, which fights for an end of Moroccan rule in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975.”

Accra, June 02, 2016 (SPS) – the President of the republic of Ghana H. E. Mr. John Dramani Manama, has expressed his deepest condolences to the Saharawi people on the passing away of President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
¨I have learnt with deep sadness and sorrow, the demise of H. E. Mohammed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and Secretary-General of the POLISARIO Front, on Tuesday, 31st May.¨ said the President of the republic of Ghana

Algiers, June 02, 2016 (SPS) - Speaker of the Council of the Nation Abdelkader Messahel signed Wednesday at the headquarters of the embassy of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Algiers the condolence book, following the death of Sahrawi president Mohamed Abdelaziz.

Algiers, June 02, 2016 (SPS) - The Speaker of the People’s National Assembly Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa sent a message of condolences to the Speaker of the Sahrawi National Assembly Khatri Addouh, following the death of Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz in which he affirmed that the deceased was a great activist for a sovereign Sahrawi Republic.
“It is with deep sadness that I learnt of the news of the death of President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mujaheed Mohamed Abdelaziz,” wrote Ould Khelifa in his message.

Algiers, June 02, 2016 (SPS) - Several political parties and national organizations on Wednesday have paid tribute to Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz, who died Tuesday, at the age of 68, after a long illness.
In messages of condolence to the family of the deceased and to the Sahrawi people, political parties and national organizations expressed deep sadness at the loss of the Sahrawi leader.

Copenhagen (Denmark, June 02, 2016 (SPS) - The main board of Danish Social Democratic Youth (DSU) adopted  a  resolution in solidarity with the just struggle of the Saharawi people  stating that DSU support for the Saharawi cause, urging Denmark to recognize Western Sahara, urging the international community to grant Western Sahara an observant seat at UN and pushing for referendum. 
On the occasion of Danish constitution day, DSU will launch an online campaign to support a referendum and recognition of Western Sahara as an independent state.

Brussels,  June 02, 2016 (SPS) - The European Coordination Conference for Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) paid Wednesday tribute to the memory of Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz, died on Tuesday, hailing “a great African leader who knew how to lead his people towards the path of freedom and independence.”

Brussels, June 01, 2016 (SPS) -The European Parliament's Intergroup "Peace for the Sahrawi people" expressed Tuesday its solidarity with the Sahrawi people following the death of its president Mohamed Abdelaziz, and committed to pursuing struggle for the self-determination referendum in Western Sahara.

South Africa, June 01, 2016  - President Jacob Zuma, on behalf of the Government and People of the Republic of South Africa, expresses his deepest condolences to the Saharawi people on the passing away of President Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.<

Nouakchott, June 01, 2016 (SPS) - The President of the National Council, Khatri Addouh Wednesday received a message of condolence Mauritanian  President, Mr. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz folowing death of President of the Republic, SG of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
"We have learned with deep sadness the news of the death of the late, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Abdel Aziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

Mexico City, June 01, 2016 - The Department of International Relations of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Tuesday expressed its sincere condolences for the untimely death of the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mohamed Abdelaziz in a message sent to the Sahrawi authorities.SPS
 
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New York, June 01, 2016 - The Secretary-General of United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon said ¨ I learned with sadness the death today of Mohamed Abdelaziz, who served as Secretary-General of the Frente Polisario beginning in 1976¨. 

Algiers, June 01, 2016 - Secretary General of the Polisario Front committed to making further sacrifices and remaining unit the final triumph of the Sahrawi people, following the death Tuesday of Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz at the age of 68 years old after a long illness.