From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And again expose Kofi Annan for the handpicked puppet of Anglo-American imperialism he is. June 24, 2001 Plan to End Sahara Clashes Rejected by PAMELA SAMPSON Associated Press Writer ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Guerrillas fighting for Western Sahara independence have rejected a U.N. proposal to end the decades-long conflict over who should control the tiny but phosphate-rich stretch of desert in North Africa. The Polisario Front said a proposal presented Friday by U.N. chief Kofi Annan ignores the rights of the Saharan people to decide their destiny freely, according to Algeria's El Watan newspaper on Sunday. In a report to the U.N. Security Council on Friday, Annan advised Morocco and the Polisario Front to negotiate the terms of an autonomy plan or risk an end to U.N. involvement in the largely forgotten conflict. Annan called on the parties to agree to wide-ranging autonomy and a referendum on its future in five years. But the Front said it would not accept a compromise that offered anything other than an immediate referendum and accused Morocco of pressuring the United Nations into pursuing a course that would ''legitimize its occupation'' of the territory. War broke out in Western Sahara in 1976 after Morocco annexed the 110,000-square-mile territory along the Atlantic coast at the end of Spanish colonial rule. Fighting between Polisario guerrillas and Morocco's U.S.-equipped army ended in 1991 with a U.N.-negotiated cease-fire. Morocco still insists it is the rightful ruler of the territory, which is rich in phosphates. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________
