Ambassador of Morocco to the United Nations in New York, Omar Hilale, challenged Algeria before the 4th UN Committee of the General Assembly, to contest the figure of 30,000 people living in the Tindouf camps and, accepting registration and census.

MEPs spoke out against the silence of the European Commission regarding the misue of humanitarian aid by Polisario, revealed by the report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), published in 2015.

The 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly adopted on Monday, without a vote, a resolution supporting the UN political process for the settlement of the Sahara issue, and called on states in the region to fully cooperate with the Secretary-General and his personal Envoy as well as with each other, to achieve a political solution to this regional dispute.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) rejected, on Friday at the UN headquarters in New York, any attempt to undermine the supreme interests of Morocco and its sovereignty.

The international community has strongly welcomed, before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly the relevance, virtues and promises of the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco for the final settlement of the artificial conflict over the Sahara, in terms of regional cooperation and security in a vast region ambushed by multiple threats.