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In an interview with the Spanish daily « El Pais » in March 2007, when asked about the Sahara conflict and its consequences on the future between Algeria and Morocco, the President of the Algerian Republic Abdelaziz Boutaflika stated : « I have said on several occasions that the Western Sahara issue would in no way be at the origin of a « casus belli » war declaration between Algeria and Morocco, but the absence of a fair and final solution for the Western Sahara issue will be a restraint to the Arab Maghreb Union development ».
As an answer to the question about the possible reopening of frontiers between the two countries, the Algerian Head of the State has indicated « that it was not necessary to talk once again about the circumstances of their closing and the repercussions generated, hence the delay in their opening”. The Algerian Head of the State re-elected today is aware that since then many things have changed, which means to defuse the people’s self-determination debate, inherited frontiers of the colonization etc. These terms have become victims of their excessive usage, and, with time, they do only serve unveiled hegemonic ambitions.
It is clear that the more a concept is a stake object, the more it is a source of confusion. This is what the international community has finally understood. By refusing to calm down, the Polisario does not want to sincerely negotiate with Morocco, while giving the impression to want to do it, unaware of the fate of the poor innocents held as hostages, and claiming at each occasion its threat of holding arms, Algeria forgets that it does not serve the movement it has created.

While looking for a means to transcend the difficulties in order to take the Sahara conflict from the deadlock, the Security Council has adopted, during its meeting on 30th April, 2009, the Resolution 1871 while deciding to preserve the Resolution 1813 in its totality, within the frame of continuity refuting to go back and reinforcing the process committed since 2007 thanks to the Moroccan autonomy initiative.
The series of obstacles since more than 30 years would have finally convinced the members of the Security Council of the sincerity of Morocco who wants to achieve a quick, concerted and sustainable settlement of the conflict in a manner that would exclude all the pipe dreams screenplays which can not be applied in reality, that is:
* Abandon the UNO mediation and let the belligerents have the armed hostilities as a resort which would launch a civil war in the Sahara between the majority of Sahrawis living in the secured region undergoing a large development, and their brothers deprived of all the human rights in Tindouf, with the risk of the region’s explosion.
* Deny the existence of the Polisario and the human tragedy of the Moroccan Sahrawis sequestrated in the Algerian territory.

229 members of the United Nations House of Representatives sent on April 3rd, 2009 an unequivocal letter to the President Barack Obama concerning the Sahara conflict resolution, bringing their support to the Moroccan autonomy proposal, and calling for overcoming the “only major obstacle” in order to prevent an efficient anti-terrorist fight in the region. In fact, according to the majority of the United Nations House of Representatives, terrorist incidents in the Maghreb have quadrupled since 2001, and the Sahara conflict resolution would allow the “reduction of terrorists’ action field concerning recruitment and action”, while bringing peace to the Sahrawis.
Still according to the bipartisan coalition that signed the letter, the economic stakes of the Sahara conflict resolution are essential for the achievement of an integrated Maghreb space and more attractive for foreign investments.

Considered as a hero by the Arab and Muslim masses for his courageous support of the Gaza people against the Israeli aggression, the Venezuelan President Hugo Raphaël Chavez Frias is known for his political identity which is neither evident nor transparent and sometimes even unsettled. Unlike Castro, Chavez talks often about God and the Christ in his speeches. He cites the gospels and his citations are sometimes invented. Chavez is also seduced by the exacerbated anti-imperialist nationalism and pretends to incarnate the radical fight against “the empire” while his country is intimately linked to the United States through an irresistible flux of oil commerce and the consumer emulation. He multiplies the most heteroclite faith professions declaring willingly to be castrist in Cuba, Maoist in China or admirer of the green book of Kadhafi in Libya, some consider him a cynic opportunist, obsessed by power and totally deprived of the real convictions, maintaining more than a personality cult.

Ahmed Sekou Touré, First President of the Republic of Guinea, was the sole African leader to have opposed the French union project proposed in the 50’s of the last century by the General De Gaule. He and his people had fully assumed the shortcomings.
A left-winger, convinced, fair, revolutionary, Ahmed Sekou Touré was one of the first founders of the African Union. Intervening before the Committee of Wise Men created by the OAU, and meeting in Freetown in order to find a solution for the Sahara issue. The late Ahmed Sekou Touré, whose country did not have then diplomatic relations with Morocco, expressed his point of view as a wise African concerning this issue. After having been silent during a three days debate before the Committee of Wise Men, within a confused environment marked with attempts to hide the truth, Ahmed Sekou Touré has pleaded as follows:
« This dispute conflicts with the principles having constituted the basis for the OAU foundation of which Morocco is one of the main founders. The Kingdom had supported the Algerian revolution during the liberation war, and has fiercely opposed the French OCRS project. We have never heard about a national Saharan feeling, if it has existed, we would have supported it. For us, only Morocco claimed the Sahara. We have supported it throughout its long fight against the Spanish colonialism. We have supported Roberto for a period, and have recognized him as the representative of Angola. However, when the MPLA has emerged as the legitimate representative of the Angolan revolution, we have been honest with Roberto, Guinea granted him the nationality. Morocco has supported the Congolese nationalism and its symbol the martyr Lumumba, but nothing then could stop the infernal colonialist and imperialist machine having led to the assassination of Lumumba, and even the elimination of the UN Secretary General Dag Hamarjeold. We have opposed the Biafran separatism in order to preserve the territorial integrity of Nigeria, despite the fact that we had Biafran friends. What was the role of the Committee of Wise Men? It is a work tool and not a sovereign body designated by the Council of the Presidents, its mission emanates from the summit.