UN Security Council reaffirmed Thursday its call on the parties to continue negotiations on the Sahara "without preconditions and in good faith" and to show "realism and a spirit of compromise" to achieve progress.

The Canary Islands expressed, here Wednesday, desire to promote cooperation relations with Morocco's regions.

Visiting Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Joaquim Rafael Branco, on Monday expressed his country's support to the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in a bid to settle the Sahara issue.

Fifteen Sahrawi families benefited on Saturday from a new family visits exchange programme, conducted under the auspices of the High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR).

Morocco has drawn the attention of Belgian federal and regional legislative institutions to the instrumentalisation by the "Polisario" of certain cases of imprisonment for common law offences to credit the theory of "alleged human rights violations."