The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, received on Tuesday at the headquarters of Corcas in Rabat, a delegation of prominent researchers from the Italian Institute of Political Studies, which is paying a visit to Morocco particularly in the southern provinces.

The next informal talks on Western Sahara will be held in early February in Manhasset (United States), said the UN on Tuesday.

With regards to the Sahara issue, “our policy has not changed. We continue to support efforts to find a peaceful, sustainable and mutually agreed upon solution to the conflict,” said Clinton at a joint press conference in Washington.

The collusion between the Polisario and the terrorist group of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), as evidenced by the kidnapping of Western nationals in Tindouf, is part of an extremist web that threatens the stability of the Maghreb, the Sahel and Africa as a whole, warns a study published by the US think tank, Atlantic Council.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted, on Friday, without a vote, a resolution reiterating the UN support for the process of negotiations on the Sahara, calling on “all parties and States of the region to fully cooperate with the Secretary General and his Personal Envoy, and with each other.”