Moroccan authorities expressed, on Thursday, their rejection of the false allegations contained in the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report 2017 on the human rights situation in Morocco.

French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, will remind the personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, at a meeting to be held this Wednesday in Paris, that the Moroccan autonomy plan, submitted in 2007, represents a serious and credible basis for the settlement of this conflict, the French foreign ministry said.

The presentation of the Manifesto of Independence on January 11, 1944, commemorated by the Moroccan people as the 74th anniversary on Thursday, is a milestone on the road to the national struggle for freedom and independence.

In a statement to MAP, permanent representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations in New York, ambassador Omar Hilale, took note with appreciation of the release of UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, published on Saturday, on the recent provocations by "Polisario" in Guergarat, in the Moroccan Sahara, affirming that the secretary-general fully shares the deep concern of the Kingdom of Morocco with regard to violations of the Military Agreements and threats to the cease-fire by "Polisario".

The National Congress of Chile voted by a huge majority, on Wednesday in Valparaiso, to support a resolution in support of the Moroccan autonomy initiative.