[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Alert - Support self-determination for Western Sahara

[Al Kagan]

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>Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 12:30:39 -0400
>To: Meredeth Turshen <turshen at igc.org>
>From: Meredeth Turshen <turshen at igc.org>
>Subject: Alert - Support self-determination for Western Sahara
>Status:  
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>Alert - Support self-determination for Western Sahara
>
>The Bush administration is pressuring members of the UN Security Council to
>impose the "Framework Agreement" on the people of Western Sahara.  Last
>month the U.S. circulated a draft resolution to members of the UN Security
>Council that would have imposed the Framework Accord on the people of
>Western Sahara.  The Framework Agreement, if adopted, would effectively
>give Morocco sovereignty over Western Sahara and deny the people of Western
>Sahara the right to self-determination.  The Framework
>Agreement would supercede the current UN settlement plan that includes a
>referendum to determine the will of the people of Western Sahara.  The
>Security Council did not vote on the U.S. draft resolution and on April
>30th extended the mandate of United Nations Mission for the Referendum in
>Western Sahara (MINURSO) for three months until 31 July 2002.  But the U.S.
>government is still working behind the scenes to get the Framework
>Agreement adopted before July.  If adopted as currently proposed, it would
>be forced by the UN on POLISARIO and the people of Western Sahara.
>
>Please contact your members of Congress and urge them to sign on the letter
>being circulated by Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ) and Congressman James
>Pitts (R-PA) in support of a self-determination referendum in Western
>Sahara.  Be sure to tell them that signatures are being coordinated by
>Charisse Glassman in Congressman Payne's office and Karin Finkler in
>Congressman Pitts's office. You can get the fax number of your
>Congressional representatives by going to www.google.com and searching for
>"Senator X" or "Representative X." 
>
>More information on the issue is available at www.richardknight.com.
>
>Meredeth Turshen, PhD
>Professor
>Rutgers University
>School of Planning and Public Policy
>33 Livingston Avenue
>New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
>tel: 732 932 4101 X681
>fax: 732 932 0934

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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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