"Resolution 2099 explicitly recognizes and for the 1st time that the solution to the Sahara conflict will contribute to stability and security in the Sahel and cooperation of the Maghreb Union"

Senegal's position on the Sahara issue "has not changed" since the time of former President Leopold Sedar Senghor, said Senegalese President Macky Sall.

King Mohammed VI received, Wednesday at the Royal Palace in Fez, Christopher Ross, Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara.

The Secretary General of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Dr Maouelainin Ben Khalihanna Maoulainin, received Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at the Council’s headquetres, Thomas von Goetz, Managing Director for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East at the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is on a working visit in Morocco.