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750 Km2 of Portuguese Territory Illegally Occupied and Colonized by Spain:  OLIVENÇA & JUROMENHA

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30/January/2002 Parliament Affirms Olivença is Part of Portugal The Report this week from the Commission on Parliamentary Matters, referred to a group of over 5,000 citizens that in June of last year submitted a Petition to the Assembly of the Republic, and is decisive, in affirming that "de Jure Olivença is part of Portugal, and never has the Portuguese Authorities recognized any sovereign right by Spain over that territory." The text approved unanimously by that Parliamentary Commission, reminds that, at various times, Portugal has claimed its rights to Olivença in the International Commision of Limits, and reminds us in that regard, about the problem with the reconstruction of the "Nossa Senhora da Ajuda" Bridge whose process is currently going through the courts. In agreement with the Law of Petition, the Question of Olivença will be debated in a Full Asembly of the Republic, at the nearest appropriate date. Although the Commission Deputies consider that "the dispute concerning Olivença lies clearly in the National domain of Foreign Policy, whose undertaking belongs in constitutional terms, to the Government", they recognize, also, that the matter fits in plainly in the "Parliamentary Diplomacy", so that the Dispute of Olivença is perfectly suitable to a debate in the Assembly of the Republic. It did not escape the Reader and President of the Parliamentary Commission, Dr Jorge Lacão to point to the Constitutional protection from which Olivença already benefits. The Report expressly affirms: "In ruling that Portugal covers the territory historically defined in the European Continent or that territory confined to the north and East by Spain, namely utilizing the adverb 'historically', the Constitution leaves open the Dispute over Olivença" On this matter, the Report affirms that "it does not appear that the sensitivity of the matter would recommend itself to an explicit insertion" in the actual Article 5. In addition to the mandatory debate in Parliament on Olivença, it is left to the free will of the Deputies to call upon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create a Working Commision to follow the Olivença problem. It has only excluded the sending of an account to Spain's Congress of Deputies on the illegallity of the Spanish occupation as the Commission believes that such an action would represent an interference in the Government's competence in conducting its Foreign Policy. Source:"InforOlivençaNet"