The United Nations Security Council extended, on Wednesday, for another year the mandate of the MINURSO and urged, for the first time, Algeria to allow the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west).
 

While announcements of the withdrawal of recognition of the so-called Polisario Republic by some countries continue, statements supporting autonomy project in the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty increase. The most recent ones, and surely not the last, are those of Macedonia and the Comoros Islands.

The last report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Sahara highlighted last week  Morocco's efforts to strengthen the institutional framework in promoting and protecting human rights, without referring to the" expansion of the MINURSO mission ", or any "control mechanism" of human rights in the Sahara .

 In view of its progress in democracy, Morocco is able to initiate the constitutional implementation of advanced regionalization

HM King Mohammed VI underlined, on Wednesday in a speech to the Nation, that regionalization should give the region its rightful place in the Constitution as a territorial entity, within the framework of the unity of the State, the nation and the territory, keeping in mind the requirements of balance and national solidarity at inter- and intraregional levels.
 

 The Moroccan delegation arrived, on Monday at Mellieha, a town north-western Malta Island, to take part in the 6th set of informal talks on the Sahara, held under the aegis of Christopher Ross, UNSG's Personal Envoy for the Sahara.