The fifth round of informal talks on the Sahara, at the invitation of the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy Christopher Ross, will start on Saturday in Manhasset (New York suburbs), UN Spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Friday.

The Moroccan delegation to the 4th round of UN-sponsored informal talks on the Sahara (December 16-18) arrived, Thursday afternoon, in Greentree, Manhasset (outskirts of New York).

Algeria has "sacrificed" its ties with Morocco and the building of the Maghreb for the sake "of pursuing a hegemonic strategy and creating instability" in the region, said Vice-President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khadad El Moussaoui, on Wednesday in the UN headquarters in New York.

A delegation of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) is taking part in the 15th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), held in Geneva from September 13 to October 1.

The autonomy of the southern provinces proposed by Morocco is "an advanced form of self-determination in the 21st century ", and the only "serious and credible" way to end the Sahara conflict, said Moulay Ahmed M’Ghizlat and Miss Maoulainine Saadani, members of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS).