Following are the full text of the Front Polisario proposal for self
determination as presented to the Security Council 10. April 2007.

The editors, Sahara Update.
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PROPOSAL OF THE FRENTE POLISARIO FOR A MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL
SOLUTION THAT PROVIDES FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE OF WESTERN
SAHARA (Official translation)

[presented to UN Secretary General on April 10 2007]


I / The Conflict of Western Sahara is a decolonisation question:

1. Included since 1965 on the list of the Non-Self-Governing territories
of the UN Decolonisation Committee, Western Sahara is a territory of which
the decolonisation process has been interrupted by the Moroccan invasion
and occupation of 1975 and which is based on the implementation of the
General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) regarding the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

2. The UN General Assembly and the Security Council have identified this
conflict as a decolonisation conflict between the Kingdom of Morocco and
the Frente POLISARIO whose settlement passes by the exercise by the
Saharawi people of their right to self-determination.

3 Likewise, the International Court of Justice, at the request of the
General Assembly has clearly ruled, in a legal opinion dated 16 October
1975, that “the materials and information presented to it do not establish
any tie of territorial sovereignty between the territory of Western Sahara
and the Kingdom of Morocco or the Mauritanian entity. Thus the Court has
not found legal ties of such a nature as might affect the application of
General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) in the decolonization of Western
Sahara and, in particular, of the principle of self-determination through
the free and genuine expression of the will of the peoples of the
Territory”.

4. Furthermore, on 29 January 2002, at the request by the Security
Council, the UN Legal Counsel clearly established that Morocco was not the
administering power of the territory, that the Madrid Agreement of 1975
dividing the territory between Morocco and Mauritania did not transfer any
sovereignty to its signatories and, finally, that the status of Western
Sahara, as Non-Self-Governing Territory, had not been affected by this
agreement.


II / The solution of the conflict passes by the holding of a referendum on
self-determination:

5. The question of Western Sahara having been identified by the
International Community as a decolonisation question, the efforts aiming
to settle it have consequently and naturally been guided by the objective
of offering the people of this territory the opportunity to decide their
future through a free and fair referendum on self-determination.

6. The Settlement Plan approved by the two parties to the conflict, the
Kingdom of Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO, and by the Security Council
in its resolutions 658 (1990) and 690 (1991), complemented by the Houston
Agreements negotiated and signed in September 1997 by the Kingdom of
Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO, under the auspices of James Baker III,
Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, and endorsed by the Security
Council as well as the Peace Plan for Self-determination for the People of
Western Sahara or Baker Plan approved by the Security council in its
resolution 1495 (2003), all provide for the holding of a referendum on
self-determination in Western Sahara. All these efforts failed because of
the reneging of the Kingdom of Morocco on its international commitments.

III / Readiness of the Frente POLISARIO to negotiate with a view to
holding the referendum on self-determination and the granting of
post-referendum guarantees to Morocco and to Moroccan residents in Western
Sahara:

7. The Frente POLISARIO that unilaterally declared a cease-fire which it
has ever since respected scrupulously, and that accepted and implemented
in good faith the Settlement Plan by virtue of which the United Nations
Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was deployed as
well as the Houston Agreements, and that has honoured all the commitments
it has undertaken by making concessions sometimes painful in order to
offer to the Saharawi people the opportunity to freely decide their
destiny, reiterates solemnly its acceptance of Baker Plan and declares its
readiness to negotiate directly with the Kingdom of Morocco, under the
auspices of the United Nations, the modalities for implementing it as well
as those relating to the holding of a genuine referendum on
self-determination in Western Sahara in strict conformity with the spirit
and letter of the UN General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and within the
format envisaged in the framework of Baker Plan, namely the choice between
independence, integration into the Kingdom of Morocco and self-governance.

8. The Frente POLISARIO is also committed to accepting the results of the
referendum whatever they are and to already negotiate with the Kingdom of
Morocco, under the auspices of the United Nations, the guarantees that it
is prepared to grant to the Moroccan population residing in Western Sahara
for 10 years as well as to the Kingdom of Morocco in the political,
economic and security domains in the event that the referendum on
self-determination would lead to independence.

9. The guarantees to be negotiated by the two parties would consist in:

9.1 : the mutual recognition of and respect for the sovereignty,
independence and territorial integrity of the two countries in
accordance with the principle of the intangibility of the borders
inherited from the independence period;

9.2 : the granting of guarantees concerning the status and the rights
and obligations of the Moroccan population in Western Sahara,
including its participation in the political, economic and social life
of the territory of Western Sahara. In this respect, the Saharawi
State could grant the Saharawi nationality to any Moroccan citizen
legally established in the territory that would apply for it;

9.3 : the agreement on equitable and mutually advantageous
arrangements permitting the development and the joint exploitation of
the existing natural resources or those that could be discovered
during a determined period of time;

9.4 : the setting up of formulas of partnership and economic
cooperation in different economic, commercial and financial sectors;

9.5 : the renunciation by the two parties, on a reciprocal basis, of
any compensation for the material destructions that have taken place
since the beginning of the conflict in Western Sahara;

9.6 : the conclusion of security arrangements with the Kingdom of
Morocco as well as with the countries of the region that may be
interested;

9.7 : the commitment of the Saharawi State to work closely with the
Kingdom of Morocco as well as with the other countries of the region
with a view to bringing to conclusion the integration process of the
Maghreb;

9.8 : the readiness of the Saharawi State to participate with Morocco
and the countries of the region in the maintenance of peace, stability
and security of the whole region in the face of the different threats
that could target it.

Likewise, the Saharawi State would positively consider any request from
the United Nations and the African Union to participate in peace-keeping
operations.

10. The Frente POLISARIO is ready, under the auspices of the United
Nations and with the approval and the support of the Security Council, to
enter in direct negotiations with the Kingdom of Morocco on the basis of
the aforementioned parameters with a view to reaching a just, lasting and
mutually acceptable political solution that provides for the
self-determination of the people of Western Sahara in conformity with the
relevant resolutions of the United Nations mainly the General Assembly
resolution 1514 (XV), thus bringing about peace, stability and prosperity
for the whole region of the Maghreb.

See also:
Polisario present clashing W.Sahara plans
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sahara-Update/message/1877

Morocco presents W.Sahara autonomy plan-official
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sahara-Update/message/1876

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