The United Kingdom supports the UN process for the settlement of the dispute over the Sahara and deems as "serious" the Moroccan approach to settle the conflict, said Thursday UK Minister of State for the Middle-East and North-Africa, Alastair Burt.

Moroccan authorities expressed, on Thursday, their rejection of the false allegations contained in the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report 2017 on the human rights situation in Morocco.

The Secretary of State for Water, Charafat Afailal, visited on Tuesday protection site of the city of Laayoune against floods (1st part), project initiated under the new model of development of southern provinces launched by HM King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Green March.

French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, will remind the personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, at a meeting to be held this Wednesday in Paris, that the Moroccan autonomy plan, submitted in 2007, represents a serious and credible basis for the settlement of this conflict, the French foreign ministry said.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, received Friday in Rabat, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara and Chief of Minurso, Colin Stewart.