The appalling situation endured by women in the Polisario-run camps in Tindouf (south-west of Algeria) was highlighted at a conference in Geneva.

Morocco's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Mr. Omar Hilale said Tuesday that Algiers uses its voice and diplomacy against Morocco, denouncing the Algeria’s obsession on the principle of self-determination when it comes to the question of the Sahara and its claims on alleged violations of human rights in the Moroccan Sahara.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs received Thursday, June 6, 2010, Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuna, Speaker of the Mexican House of Deputies.

Libya supports Morocco's territorial integrity with regard to both the Sahara issue and the occupied cities of Sebta and Melillia and the Jaafarian islands, said, on Sunday in Tripoli, Mohamed Abou Al Kacem Zaoui, secretary of the Libyan General People's Congress.

Morocco reaffirms its full readiness to pursue cooperation with the UN Secretary General and his personal envoy to reach a realistic and innovative solution to the Sahara issue, on the basis of the Moroccan autonomy initiative, Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said on Tuesday.