Morocco will participate, at the invitation of UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy, Christopher Ross, in a restricted informal meeting on August 9-11 in Austria, in preparation for the fifth round of negotiations on the Sahara, according to a statement by the Moroccan Foreign Ministry made on Saturday.

Saadani Maoulainine, one of the thousands of Moroccans the Algerian-backed polisario separatists sent to Cuba for indoctrination, exposed, Monday before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the systematic human rights abuses in the polisario-run Tindouf camps, south-western Algeria.

Morocco's initiative to grant substantive autonomy to its southern provinces is the only realistic and fair solution to this issue, Hajbouha Zoubeir, a member of the Royal Consultative Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) said on Wednesday in London.

Moulay Ahmed Mghizlate, member of Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) said Tuesday in Geneva that the Algerian-backed Polisario built on the deadlock of the Sahara issue to develop their human trafficking business.

The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs participates in the regional seminar of the carribe which takes place on Tuesday 12 until 24 of May 2009 at Figate Bay (saint-Kitts –et-Nevis) initiated by the committee of 24 of the UN , under the theme of “ challenges and opportunities in the process of decolonization in the present world”.