The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, received on Friday, at the UN headquarters in New York, a Moroccan delegation composed of MM. Taieb Fassi Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, Executive Officer of Studies and Documentation, accompanied by the permanent representative Ambassador of the Kingdom at the UN, M. El Mostafa Sahel.

The United Nations affirmed Friday that Mr. Peter Van Walsum is still the UN mediator concerning the Sahara issue and that “his status has not changed”.

The Secretary General of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Dr. Maouelainin Ben khalihenna Maouelainin, received on Friday July 18th, 2008, at the Council headquarters, a delegation of central African journalists.

The President of the Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khallihenna Ould Errachid, had a discussion, Tuesday in Rabat, with the Chairman of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), Mr. Julio Gonzalez Gamarra.

The extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of Portugal in Morocco, M. Joao Rosa La, has indicated that “the Sahara issue is one of the obstacles to the Maghreb regional integration deepening”, reminding that the Portuguese government welcomed the Moroccan autonomy initiative