The European Union welcomed the strengthening of the branches of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) in the southern Moroccan cities of Laayoun and Dakhla (the so-called Western Sahara), High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherni, said on Tuesday.

Foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar received, on Thursday in Rabat, UNSG personal envoy for the Sahara Christopher Ross who is on a visit to Morocco as part of a regional tour.

The Canario-Saharan Forum, an association based in Las Palmas and brings together citizens of the Moroccan Sahara and Canary Islands, denounced on Monday embezzlement by leaders of Polisario and Algeria of humanitarian aid to populations in camps Tindouf (southern Algeria).

Morocco obtained guaranties about the handling of the Sahara affair following the telephone conversation of his Majesty King Mohammed VI with the UN secretary- General BanKi-Moon during last month of January, indicated in Rabat Minister of Foreign affairs and cooperation Mr Salaheddine Mezouar .

Autonomy as a compromise solution is the « only honorable way » to reach a final resolution to the Sahara conflict. Asserted on Wednesday, the former special representative of the UN secretary –General to the Sahara,