INDEPENDENCE-SEEKING MOVEMENT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390058-0
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: March 29, 1985
• Content Type: CABLE

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((TEXT)) WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY YES OR N0, BECAUSE EVERY GROUP
HAS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND TO DETERMINE ITS DESTINY. THIS IS WHAT
WE ARE NOW ADHERING T0. AS FOR THE KING OF MOROCCO, HE WENT OVER
ALL THESE RESTRICTIONS AND ARAB REGIMES AND EXTENDED HIS HAND TO US
AND ESTABLISHED UNITY. IN FACT, MY AIM IS THE UNITY OF THE ARAB
NATION. I CAN SEE THAT THE ARAB NATION IS NOW IN DANGER: A DANGER
OF BALKANIZATION AND A DANGER OF SECTARIANISM AND A DANGER FROM THE
NEW IMPERIALIST CRUSADE -- AND THE AMERICAN BASES ARE RETURNING
AGAIN.
TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING THE EVICTION OF COLONIALIST BASES FROM
LIBYAN TERRITORY BUT WE ARE CONFRONTED BY ANOTHER HOSTILE ACTION BY
ESTABLISHING FOREIGN BASES OVER OTHER PARTS OF THE ARAB HOMELAND. IT
SEEMS AS IF WE HAVE DONE NOTHING: 1 MULTIPLIED BY ZERO IS ZERO. IN
LIBYA WE SCORED 1, A POSITIVE FIGURE; IN ANOTHER ARAB COUNTRY THEY
SCORED ZERO. THE RESULT IS ZERO. WE SAID LIBERATION CANNOT BE
ESTABLISHED PARTIALLY BUT ONLY WHEN ALL THESE ARAB LANDS ARE
LIBERATED AND THE ARAB PERSON IS LIBERATED. ANYONE WHO WANTS ARAB
UNITY WILL FIND ME WITH HIM.
NOW, WHEN WE ARE MEETING, AND WITH US ARE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES
FROM ALL THE ARAB HOMELAND, I TALK FRANKLY TO YOU ABOUT THE KING OF
MOROCCO, SINCE THE MAN EXTENDED HIS HAND FOR UNITY AND WANTED TO
CONFIRM, TO ME AT LEAST, WITHOUT MATERIAL BENEFITS THAT THIS NATION
BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND THE GULF IS ONE NATION. THE PROOF IS THAT
THERE IS A PEOPLE IN THE FAR WEST UNITED WITH A PEOPLE IN NORTH
AFRICA, WHICH IS NEARER TO THE EAST. THIS PROVES THAT THIS IS A ONE
NATION, AND WHENEVER A PART BECOMES ABLE TO DETERMINE ITS DESTINY,
IT UNITES WITH OTHER ARAB PARTS. WHEN UNITY IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN
LIBYA AND SYRIA, THIS WILL HAVE A GREATER MORAL MEANING. IT MEANS
THAT THIS IS A ONE NATION AND THESE TWO PARTS HAVE BECOME READY FOR
UNITY. I LOOK AT IT FROM THIS ANGLE MORE THAN THE OTHER MATERIAL
ANGLES. THE KING OF MOROCCO ACTED IN A WAY WHICH CONFIRMED TO ME A
FACT WHICH I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW, WHICH IS THAT THIS IS ONE
NATION.
I TALKED TO FRENCH PRESIDENT MITTERRAND IN CRETE, AND HE SAID TO
ME: I DO NOT CONSIDER THE ARAB NATION TO BE ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE,
LIKE FRANCE AND ITALY. THEY DO NOT THINK OF THEMSELVES AS FRANCE OR
ITALY. BUT THEY THINK OF YOU, THE ARABS, AS SEPERATE COUNTRIES
LIKE ITALY, SPAIN, FRANCE, AND GERMANY, AND SO ON. S0, HOW WOULD
YOU UNITE THIS NATION? THIS IS ONE PEOPLE AND ONE NATION.
HE SAID: THIS IS NEWS TO ME AND A GREAT HISTORICAL ASPIRATION,
BUT THE WORLD MUST UNDERSTAND IT.
I WOULD LIKE TO PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT THIS IS ONE NATION. THIS
IS ONE PEOPLE, TORN AND DIVIDED. WHY DID I GIVE NIGERIA AS AN
EXAMPLE? !JE SAID THIS IS LIKE NIGERIA. THE ARABS NUMBER 100
MILLIO"?I .1ND T1IEY !!RE 100 '-ZILLION. IF 4JE EXTEPJD OVER A BIGGER
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, THIS COULD BE UNFORTUNATE OR FORTUNATE IN `CHE
FUTURE. IF THIS KING AT LEAST CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONFIRMATION THAT
THIS IS ONE PEOPLE, THEN ~rJE CANNOT DENY THE TRUTH OTHERWISE WE WOULD
BE DENYING THE MORALS AND ETHICS THEMSELVES.
YOU CAN SAY IT IS FEUDALISM, EXPLOITATION, OR MONARCHY OR
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ANYTHING. THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM FEUDALISM AND EXPLOITATION IN
MOROCCO CAN RVOLT AGAINST EXPLOITATION AND FEUDALISM. THOSE WHO ARE
SUFFERING ANYTHING IN LIBYA CAN REBEL
AGAINST IT. THIS UNITY DOES NOT VETO THE WORKING CLASSES WHICH ARE
REBELLING AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS. IF THERE ARE SLAVES AND
FREEMEN, THEN THE SLAVES MUST REBEL AGAINST THEIR MASTERS. NOBODY
IS STOPPING THEM. WHO IS STOPPING WORKERS IN A MOROCCAN COMPANY
FROM REBELLING AGAINST THE EXPLOITERS AND TAKING THE COMPANY INTO
THEIR OWN HANDS. THEY CAN DO THAT. THEY SHOULD NOT SAY THE
POLICE AND THE KING'S ARMY WILL COME TO THEM AND WILL HIT THEM. THEY
SHOULD SHOULDER THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. BUT THIS UNITY DID NOT STOP
SUCH AN ACTION. ANYWAY, THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLY
COMING, BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT NOW TS TO SAVE PAN-ARABISM. THERE IS
SOMETHING CALLED PAN-ARABISM WHICH IS IN DANGER NOW.
AFTER BEIRUT THE ARABS WERE TALKING ABOUT NATIONS IN PLURAL, AND
THIS MADE ME UNDERTAKE A TOUR IN THE ARAB HOMELAND TELLING THEM:
PLEASE, LET US FORGET ABOUT UNITY, JUST SAY WE ARE ONE NATION. AT
THE BEGINNING THEY SAID: N0, WE ARE A SUDANESE NATION; WE ARE A
TUNISIAN NATION; WE ARE A LEBANESE NATIONI I TOLD THEM: Jtrc~y
ONE ARAB NATION. WITHOUT UNITY. DON'T FORM A UNITY FOR US; JUST SAY:
WE ARAB NATION AND EACH OF US IS A SULTAN IN HIS OWN PLACE
Y GOD, I WAS SEEKING TO BRING THE- OVER E
CONVICTION, AFTER BEIRUT AND IN THAT DESPAIR, THAT THEY WERE THE
SONS OE ONE NATION. THEY HAD REACHED A POINT WHERE THEY WERE
PREPARED NOT TO BE ONE NATION, LET ALONE SOMEONE FORMING AN ARAB
UNITY WITH YOU. I REALLY CANNOT SACRIFICE SUCH A GREAT
ACTION. ((CHANTS OF SLOGANS HAILING ARAB UNITY))
THE MOROCCAN PEOPLE, 20 MILLION PEOPLE, ARE NOW ON THE ROAD TO
UNITY. THIS IS A GREAT ACTION WHICH WE CANNOT ABANDON. I KNOW THAT
THE SAHARA NUMBERS 40,000 OR 70,000 PEOPLE, BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN
THAT I AGREE THAT THEY SHOULD BE INVADED BY FORCE AND FORCED 'l0 JOIN
MOROCCO OR MAURITANIA OR ALGERIA. N0, I STILL UPHOLD THAT THEY
SHOULD DETERMINE THEIR OWN FATE. THIS IS A MATTER AGREED UPON WITH
THE KING OF MOROCCO FROM THE BEGINNING, BEFORE THE UNITY, AND DURING
'['HE SIGNING OF THE OUJDA TREATY: A REFERENDUM FOR THE SAHARAN PEOPLE.
WE DO NOT ABANDON THIS DEMAND FOR A REFERENDUM. THE KING IS NOT
AGAINST REFERENDUM. FROM THE START HE AGREED WITH ME ON THE
REFERENDUM. WE ARE STILL FOR THIS. BUT THERE IS CONFUSION: THERE
ARE AFRICANS WHO HAVE NEVER PARTICIPATED IN THE LIBERATION OF THIS
SAHARA WHILE IT WAS COLONIZED; THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THE
BORDERS OF THE ARAB NATION ARE, OR THE MEANING OF ARAB
NATIONALISM. THESE AFRICANS, SEEING A PEOPLE BEING LIBERATED AND
HAVING A MOVEMENT CALLED THE POLISARIO, HUFF AND PUFF SAYING: THIS
MOVEMENT MUST BE SUPPORTED; THIS PEOPLE MUST BE SUPPORTED;
THERE MUST BE SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PEOPLESI MORE STILL, AN ASIAN
COMES WHO ALSO DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARAB NATIONA ND SPEAKS ABOUT A
NEW PEOPLE GETTING INDEPENDENCE AND ANOTHEP, STATE IS COLOtII;:It~lG tT 1
THIS IS REALLY DECEPTION. ONLY THE ARABS KNOW THIS ISSUE. THE
OTHERS MUST TAKE THEIR HANDS OFF IT. THIS IS NOT AN INTERNATIONAL
ISSUE; IT IS AN ARAB ISSUE. THE ARABS ARE THE ONES WHO KNOW THAT
THEY ARE ONE NATION, THAT THEY ARE ALREADY SO MANY STATES, AND
WHETHER THEY NEED ANOTHER STATE OR NOT, ETC.
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BECAUSE THE FOREIGNERS, THE NON-ARABS DO NOT KNOW THIS STORY.
WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OVER THIS SITUATION.
THEY IMAGINE THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS ISSUE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF
BRITAIN OCCUPYING THE MALVINAS; THAT IT MUST BECOME INDEPENDENT;
THAT ONE SHOULD STAND WITH ARGENTINA AGAINST BRITAIN. THEY IMAGINE
THAT THE CASE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF FRANCE OCCUPYING NEW CALEDONIA;
THAT IT MUST TAKE ITS HANDS OFF IT; AND THE
NEW CALEDONIAN PEOPLE MUST DETERMINE THEIR OWN FATE. SO THEY SEE THE
QUESTION: SOMEONE COLONIZING SOMEONE ELSE. THIS WAS THE CASE WHEN
SPAIN WAS COLONIZING THE SAHARA. THEN THEY SHOULD HAVE REGISTERED
THE POLISARIO AS A LIBERATION MOVEMENT, BECAUSE IT WAS FIGHTING
AGAINST A FOREIGN ENEMY. THIS SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE WHEN THE
POLISARIO WAS FIGHTING SPAIN. BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN; THEY NEVER
REGISTERED IT AS A LIBERATION MOVEMENT; THEY DID NOT PAY ATTENTION
TO IT, AND THEY NEVER AGREED AT AN AFRICAN SUMMIT OR ELSEWHERE ON
SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE SAHARAN PEOPLE FROM SPANISH COLONIALISM
AND SUPPORT FOR ITS RIGHT TO INDEPENDENCE. WE WERE THE ONLY ONES TO
DO THIS, AND IT WAS DONE ALSO BY THE BRAVE MEN OF THE POLISARIO.
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