Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid, received on Friday in Rabat, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Antonio Guterres, who is currently visiting Morocco in the framework of a tour in the region which started with Algiers and Tindouf.

Will be meeting Prime Minister, members of the Government and, Corcas chairman and President of Consultative Council for Human Rights

  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Antonio Guterres, pays starting from Thursday, 10 to 12 September a visit to Morocco, as part of a regional tour where he visited Algiers and Tindouf.

Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is "open and fair", Liberia's Vice President, Joseph N. Boakai, said here Friday.

The dispute over the Sahara issue undermines the regional economic integration and its persistence threatens security and stability in sub-Saharan Africa, Zhang Ming, Director General of African Department at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Friday in Rabat.

The international human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), voiced concern over the situation in the Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria), an area that organization described as "isolated".