The bodies and organizations of civil society in the region of Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira welcomed the holding in Dakhla of the Crans Montana Forum (March 12-14) under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, in view of the positive impact that this event will have on the economic and development in this region.

The Sahara issue is a Moroccan-Algerian problem and Polisario has no weight in this artificial conflict, said Tuesday speaker of the House of Councillors, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah.

The embezzlement of humanitarian aid by Algeria and the Polisario, was denounced on Saturday in the front page of a leading Belgian paper, La Libre Belgique.

Foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar received, on Thursday in Rabat, UNSG personal envoy for the Sahara Christopher Ross who is on a visit to Morocco as part of a regional tour.

An amendment to a draft report on human rights and the European Union’s policy presented by handful of anti-Moroccan members of the European parliament on the Sahara was rejected on Monday by the majority of their peers.