Members of the Delegation of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs participating in the 18th session of the UNHRC, from 12 to 30 September 2011 in Geneva, attended numerous conferences and meetings organized on the sidelines of the session.

The delegation of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs represented by Mrs Zahra Al Shakaf and Mrs Maskoula Baamar before the Fourth Committee of the United Nations in New York made two speeches on the status of Sahrawi women in the Kingdom of Morocco, where they have rights and benefits, the issue of humanitarian aid embezzlement in the Tindouf camps as well as the kingdom's efforts to settle the artificial dispute over the Sahara.

A large delegation representing the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), the work of the 18th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the UN, to be held in Geneva from 12 to 30 September 2011.

Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said, Thursday night in Manhasset, the underway normalization process of relations between Morocco and Algeria is likely to "contribute to the resolution" of the Sahara issue.

The works of the 8th round of informal talks on the Sahara opened, on Wednesday in Manhasset (New York's suburbs) in the presence of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the polisario, said to MAP the Office of the UN spokesman.