Belgian Deputy: Their refusal to give us access means that there must be something hidden

Algeria denied a group of Belgian deputies access to Tindouf, where they intended to carry out investigations into the deportation of Sahrawi children to Cuba.

A Moroccan delegation will take part on February 9-10 in Geneva in a meeting to examine the Action Plan of confidence-building measures of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aiming to improve the humanitarian conditions of the population in the Tindouf camps.

The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received at the Council headquarters in Rabat on Wednesday, a French parliamentary delegation.

Morocco presented several concrete ideas to accelerate the pace of the UN-backed negotiations on the Sahara and has reaffirmed its willingness to find a political solution to the regional dispute on the basis of the autonomy plan, Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri underlined on Sunday at the end of the fifth round of UN-backed informal talks, held on January 21-23 in Manhasset (New York).

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.