The new personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Horst Koehler, took office on September 8 in New York.

The Foreign Affairs committee of the Peruvian Congress, which met for this purpose on Monday, issued an indisputable verdict to almost all of its members, rejecting the proposal on the basis of an unfavorable opinion issued by the Peruvian ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Royal Advisory Council on Saharan Affairs (Corcas), represented in the Moroccan delegation by Moulay Ahmed Mghizlat and Hassan Sbai, has participated since Monday September 11 at the 36th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, met on Thursday in Washington, DC, with the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and at the headquarters of Congress with the Chairpersons of Foreign Affairs Committees at the US Senate and House of Representatives, Bob Corker and Ed Royce

A budget amounting at about 465 million MAD was devoted to a hydro-agricultural development plan over 1,000 ha in the province of Boujdour, according to Regional Office for Agriculture (DRA).