Political disagreement between Morocco and Algeria over the status of the Sahara "remained an impediment to bilateral and regional counterterrorism cooperation in 2017," the US State Department pointed out in its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for the year 2017.

Sierra Leone's minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Alie Kabba hailed, Wednesday in Rabat, "the seriousness and credibility" of the Moroccan autonomy initiative as a basis for settling the Sahara dispute.

The United States reiterated, Monday in Washington, that the autonomy plan for the Sahara is "serious", "realistic" and "credible", stressing that it can satisfy the aspirations of the populations of the Sahara "to manage their own affairs in peace and dignity".

The Moroccan delegation to the 39th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva blasted over the false Algerian allegations on the situation in the Moroccan Sahara.

The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs is taking part with the official delegation of the Kingdom of Morocco in the thirty-ninth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which opened on Monday, September 10, 2018.