The visit will be marked by a meeting with Mr. Manuel Chavez, President of the Government of Andalusia, and many government officials, party members, academics and media.

Corcas delegation is composed of: Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Secretary General, Maoulainain Ben Khalihenna- Kalthoum Khayyat - Masoud Ramadan - Hussein Beida - Moulay Ahmed Mghaizlat - Gajmoula Bent Abi – Charif Hsna - Abdel-Aziz - Khaddad Moussaoui

June 5, 2006

Council Activities in Sevilla

Council delegation meets with spokesman of Socialist Parliamentary Group
2/24/2009
 

Francisco Prados: I hope that Polisario will accept autonomy  to safeguard the interests of the Mediterranean  peoples

  Malga Mayor in a meeting on Wednesday, with a delegation headed by corcas chairman supported   autonomy initiative to find a lasting solution through dialogue and compromise. 

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid,  Chairman of the Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs and his accompanying delegation, held on Monday, in the presence of the Consul General of the Kingdom in Seville a meeting with Mr. Manuel Garcia Navarro, the spokesman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group of the Regional Parliament of Andalusia. 

Mr. Manuel García Navarro stressed his party's position supporting the dialogue mechanism to resolve disputes peacefully, especially when it comes to conflicts, such as the Sahara dispute. He considered the meeting an opportunity to listen to the point of view of the Council.

Afterwards, Mr. chairman took the floor and raised the following themes:
- Corcas mission to find a solution to the problem
- Overview of the visit by Ocrcas to Madrid and the Canary Islands
- Andalusia has historical and economic ties with Morocco
- The experience of self-government in Andalusia a model to follow
- His Majesty the King wanted to put an end to the problem of the Sahara according to international legitimacy
- The report of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, calls for direct negotiations to reach a solution satisfactory to all parties
- Failure of the referendum in the early nineties due to the non respect of geographical extension of Saharan tribes, and whose implementation would apply a change in the borders of the neighboring countries of Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Mauritania
- free, honest and democratic referendum is not possible
- the option of war brought about tragedies,
- The solution is political, under Moroccan sovereignty, according to international law
- The solution is self-government in response to the historical demands of Saharans maintaining Saharan identity,
- Take advantage of the Spanish experience in the field of self-government
- Corcas aims to put an end to this conflict
- Reconciliation with everyone, especially the Polisario Front
- we ask for help to achieve this solution
- The Saharan region between the four borders is chaotic, where no law or system is reigning and where the phenomenon of trafficking in all its forms is growing: men, weapons, drugs and terrorism
- The region may turn into another Afghanistan
- Self-government advanced system of self-determination, with parliamentary institutions and local government coming from the ballot box
- Autonomy achieves national unity
- Mororcco, under His Majesty the King of Morocco, the young courageous man knew significant progress towards democracy, women's rights, turning the page on the past in the field of human rights and adapting the Islamic religion with the modern requirements
- Our desire to take advantage of the Spanish experience
- 141 members of Corcas is representing the Saharan community
- We want reconciliation with our brothers in the camps
- Self-government will contribute to stability in the region and its surroundings, through the activation of the international building the Maghreb and reduction of illegal immigration and religious extremism
- We call upon our friends in Spain to work to support this solution, especially the government parliamentary and political support of Andalusia

Mr. Manuel Garcia Navarro:

- Self-government has been existing in Andalusia for 25 years
- Self- government in Andalusia is autonomous with independent Parliament and democratic government
- We enjoy large powers in the fields of health, education, social services and economy
- Political autonomy a key factor in the development of Andalusia, we are now importing labour instead if exporting it
- We have a special relationship with the Saharan people
- Andalusia people sympathize with the plight of children in the camps
- This solidarity is humanitarian not political, we support a solution that respects human rights

Mr. President took the floor here, addressing the following elements:

- The identity of the Sahrawi people
- Respect for the Andalusian assistance to the children of the camps
- Polisario brings children to Andalusia to gain the sympathy of the Andalusian people
- Aid should include all Sahrawis whether in the camps, or in the south of Morocco
- Polisario Front is not the sole representative of Sahrawis
- Suffering in the camps requires a final political solution as aid is not a solution to the problem
- Self-government is the only solution to this conflict
- Andalusian people should be a link between Corcas and Polisario
- Self-governing historic reconciliation
- Autonomy victory for all parties
- Corcas involved in the preparation of an autonomy plan that Morocco will sublimit to the United Nations
- The Polisario Front is political and military dogmatic movement
- We want Polisario Front to become a political realistic and pragmatic movement

Mr. Manuel García Navarro expressed hope to promote cooperation between Andalusia and the south of Morocco, and committed himself to help dialogue between Polisario and Corcas.

Mr Manuel Garcia. Farrow:

The visit was very useful because it enabled us to put forward and exchange views in a frank and serious way. I want to say that the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Andalusian parliament knows and understands the situation and the problem in the Sahara. We want a solution that respects international law and UN report. We also hope it will be agreed upon by all parties, a solution that will guarantee interests of all Sahrawis. In this direction, we are ready for cooperation and assistance, and we wish to make further efforts to promote transparency and openness between the Andalusian and Moroccan peoples to view the situation accurately.
 

Chairman of Socialist Party Group: 
 

Manuel Garcia Faro: We are ready to help resolve the Sahara issue

  Mr. Manuel Garcia Faro, Chairman of Socialist Party in Andalusia said after a meeting with Corcas delegation Alkourkas, on a visit to Andalusia to explain the contents of the Moroccan proposal to resolve the conflict in the Sahara, said that "the visit was very useful because it enabled us to put forward and exchange views in a frank and serious way." 

He added: "I want to say that the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Andalusian parliament knows and understands the situation and the problem of the Sahara. We want in turn to have a solution that respects international law, UN report and which is agreed by all parties, a solution that will guarantee interests of all Sahrawis. In this direction, we are ready for cooperation and assistance, and we wish to make further efforts to promote transparency and openness between the Andalusian and Moroccan peoples to view the situation accurately. " 
 

Corcas Delegation at a Press Conference in Seville
1/27/2009 

Khalihenna: Polisario Front in difficult situation and does not respond to the realities of global changes

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid and the delegation accompanying him made on Monday, a press conference in Seville in the context of a visit by the delegation to Andalusia to explain the contents of the Moroccan proposal to resolve the Sahara dispute.

Mr. President started the conference with an introductory speech in which he presented the following topics:

- Corcas definition: Royal institution set up by His Majesty the King on 25/03/2006 in Laayoune, composed of 141 members representing various Saharan tribes, political organizations, trade unions and some former political prisoners. It is an appointed not elected institution in accordance with the representation traditions in the South. Its main task is to find a solution to the dispute over the Sahara through reconciliation with immediate effect with our brothers in Polisario.
- Autonomy is the ultimate solution to this issue, which will be submitted by Morocco in October to the United Nations
- Autonomy is a known and advanced system in Spain.
- Autonomy is designed to meet the historical and necessary needs and demands of the Saharan population, while maintaining the Saharan specificities and personality as one component of the Moroccan people, who played major roles in the modern and old Moroccan history
- Autonomy experiences are diversified across the world (Spain, Germany, Belgium ...) as a form of self-determination against secession
- Autonomy, form of democracy participation and integration within the mother State
- A brief overview on the status of the conflict through the option of war and its disastrous effects. Peace process and its deficiencies that made it unworkable bringing about radical change to the map of the border countries
- Moroccan King Mohammed VI, the young King of Morocco, which wants to make the state respond to the requirements of modern times at the same time maintain the fixed principles, and wants a solution to the problem by giving the Sahara region and the population participatory democratic means respecting Sahrawi personality and maintaining national sovereignty

- Corcas delegation visit to the Spanish capital Madrid and meetings held there with the actors, political decision-makers, trade unions and strategic studies institutes
- The current visit aims to get inspired by international experience in the field of self-government, especially the Spanish experience as a model of unity, internal solidarity and economic, social and cultural development
- So far, the visit is a success
- This visit is also an opportunity for us to ask our brothers in Spain to use lobbying and mediation to make Polisario Front accept dialogue and negotiation
- We ask our brothers in the Polisario Front to abandon dogmatism and adopt realistic and pragmatic policy
- The reality of the region calls for speeding up the solution because of the magnitude of the challenges, especially illegal immigration and smuggling of every hue
- We want stability in the region as it might turn into a box of gunpowder that can explode at any moment
- Autonomy gain and victory for all: Morocco will preserve its territorial sovereignty. Algeria will get out of the conflict in dignity. Sahrawis and Polisario Front will have their legitimate and historical demands

The media questions focused on what follows:

- Corcas stages in the preparation of autonomy plan
- The status of the Polisario Front and its current position
- Autonomy criteria
- Position of the political parties that have been in dialogue with Spain
- The central position of the Socialist Labor Party
- Polisario activity in Laayoune
- Corcas and Saharan representation
- King and Corcas
- What is required from the Spanish political parties
- Self-determination referendum
- Polisario participation in the preparation of autonomy
- Humanitarian assistance to the camps

In response to these questions, Mr. President raised the following points:

- Corcas special session 25/26/27 May 2006, which focused on autonomy plan by 141 members. The session was open until the completion of all elements of the project which we will be submitted to His Majesty the King within the next month of September. This project does not exclude anyone, including our brothers in the Polisario Front, which we hope it will participate in this preparation.
- Polisario Front is in difficult situation. It does not respond to the realities of global transformations as a dogmatic movement based on single party and single opinion coupling between political and military aspects.
- Polisario Front does not represent Sahrawis
- We want to negotiate with it as a political pragmatic and realistic party. The situation of the camps inhabitants is of concern, because they have been suffering for over 30 years from poverty and deprivation.
- Self-governance standards are in line with international standards, where power is shared between the center and autonomy institutions
- sovereignty elements are clear and the rest are negotiable
- We call Spanish political parties to mediate and intervene to help us go to the negotiating table with our brothers in Polisario
- Our meeting with the Spanish Socialist Labour Party was positive and we received full support
- Relationship between Spain and Morocco are distinguished
- There are young people in Laayoune who freely express their separatist ideas without any problem, they move internally and externally without barriers example Aminatou Haidara and Ali Salem Tamek, though they form a minority. 40 people met with human rights envoy of the United Nations who visited Laayoune, stayed for three days and acknowledged that there is no violation of the freedom of opinion and expression. On the other hand, people live in camps in inhumane conditions in a climate of lack of freedom of opinion and expression. No one can criticize the front’s policy. Absence of pluralism. Absence of the press. But the question is why the Spanish media keep silent although they revere democracy and human rights about violations and atrocities in the Tindouf especially at this moment that the region is cut off from the world?
- The question of representativeness is clear the camps population are one third and the Sahara population two-thirds
- Corcas is not autonomy, but a royal institution working to create objective conditions for the achievement of self-government.
- Corcas is appointed by the King and not an elected institution
- We want an autonomy taking into account the international standards of democracy and human rights in line with the Moroccan specificities
- Autonomy’s major impact in the modernization of the Moroccan State
- the visit and the coming visits designed to enhance consultations with our neighbors and mediation in order to activate negotiations with our brothers in the camps
- Referendum is not feasible politically and technically
- Autonomy is for all Sahrawis including Polisario,
- We contacted a number of associations that support and sympathize with Polisari
- These associations are not neutral
- We ask them to deal with all Sahrawis, without exception. 

Council delegation meets with teachers of Law, Pablo de Olavide, University of Seville 
 

The delegation of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs met on Monday in Seville with professors of Law, at Pablo de Olavide University, in the context of a visit by the delegation to Andalusia to explain the contents of the Moroccan proposal to resolve the Sahara dispute.

The President took the floor in order to define Corcas. He addressed the following elements:

- Overview of the meetings held by the Moroccan delegation with Spanish officials. The visit objective is to take advantage of the Spanish experience in the field of self-government as the closest geographically to the south of Morocco
- The visit of the delegation to the capital Madrid, the content of the meetings held there
- Self-government is the only way out of the dispute over the Sahara
- The Sahara problem causes instability in the region and hinders the building of any of the Maghreb
- War left a humanitarian disaster
- The failure of the peace plan approved by the United Nations, which was built on the principle of self-determination through the identification as a unique model that has not been applied in any conflict in the world
- The peace plan implies changing borders of Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Mauritania
- The United Nations said in its report for the month of April it was impossible to implement the referendum, and the need to resort to negotiation to find a solution satisfactory to all parties
- The region in front of two options: either to keep the situation as it is and its humanitarian consequences with the people staying in a foreign state, disrupt the process of building the Arab Maghreb and its implications through weakening these countries in any negotiations with United States the European Union and any other party; continuation of the region under the mercy of chaos, without law and order and the growing trafficking in all its forms: human, weapons, drugs and terrorism.
Or adoption of the political solution made by Morocco through self-government.
- 25/03/2006 King appointed the members of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs
- the Council's mission to set a vision on self-rule
- The young King of Morocco wants to change the young political and administrative structures in Morocco for a modern democratic country
- Self-governance is not an easy issue because of the repercussions on all state institutions and administrations since Morocco is a central state
- Influence on the rest of the Mahghreb
- Autonomy through reconciliation and a solution satisfactory to all
- Polisario Front should abandon its dogmatic approach and be more realistic and pragmatic
- Separation is not possible
- The first meeting of Corcas special session last 25/26/27 May discussed the contents of self-government a new and difficult element. The first day members were scared to deal with this subject, on the second day, members provided their views on the mechanisms and problems of self-government
- The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs is appointed not elected institution by His Majesty the King
- Despite the appointment the Council includes 141 members representing different tribes and different generations, women and men. It is a representative image of the Saharawi community in all its components.
- The need to take advantage of the international models of self-government, including the Spanish experience because of geographical proximity to Morocco, with the need for respect of the Moroccan specificities
- His Majesty King Mohammed VI, made consultations with all the Moroccan political parties participating in government or opposition.
- The need for Spanish actors, politicians and academics to support in order to reach a negotiated solution with our brothers in the Polisario Front
- Autonomy is an economic start for the region adjacent to the Moroccan Sahara, and thus the time factor is very important in resolving this issue
- Polisario Front is political-military organization (militia)
- Morocco respects human rights
- There is no violation of human rights in Laayoune, but some skirmishes between young separatist people and the security forces which intervene in some cases, to protect the law and public order
- Polisario Front exploits these events and trying to publicize human rights violations in the south of Morocco
- Vast difference between truth and propaganda
- The reality of human rights in Tindouf, where there is lack of freedom of expression and opinion and absence of movement and elements of a decent living for camps populations
- Reconciliation is to forget the past and begin a new page

Discussions began between teachers and Mr. President, who explained the following elements: