The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, appointed the Italian-Swedish Staffan de Mistura as his new Personal Envoy for the Moroccan Sahara, announced Wednesday the UN spokesman.

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, confirmed in his report on the Moroccan Sahara to the Security Council, that armed members of the "polisario" were present in Guergarat in October and November 2020, defeating unsuccessful attempts of the "polisario" and Algeria to hide this truth.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has submitted to the Security Council, the advanced copy of his annual report on the Moroccan Sahara, covering the period from 30 September 2020 to 31 August 2021. This report is submitted in anticipation of the consideration of the issue of the Moroccan Sahara during the current month of October, and the adoption of a resolution extending the mandate of Minurso, for which Guterres has recommended a duration of one year.

The decision of the European Union (EU) court on the agriculture and fisheries agreements signed with Morocco is a "political maneuver" of Algeria and its creature, the "polisario", said Wednesday president of the Council of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid.

Cote d'Ivoire called, Monday in New York, for a solution to the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara in accordance with the spirit of the autonomy initiative presented by the Kingdom.