The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), held on June 11 in Changsha, capital of China's Hunan province, followed on June 12 by the official inauguration of the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, once again clearly and unequivocally confirmed that the so-called “sadr” has no legitimacy or place in Sino-African cooperation mechanisms.

Morocco denounced, on Tuesday before the UN Committee of 24 (C-24), the obstinacy and intransigence of Algeria, which is holding the Sahara political process hostage to the detriment of regional stability.

The Republic of Ghana considers the autonomy plan presented by the Kingdom of Morocco as the only realistic and sustainable basis for a mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara issue.

In a letter addressed to the President and members of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, condemned the distortion of the truth regarding the Moroccan Sahara in a paragraph contained in the Council's latest report to the General Assembly, expressing regret over the political characterization and assessment of the situation in the Sahara.

The support expressed by the United Kingdom for Morocco's autonomy plan for the Sahara heralds a new era of strengthened and mutually beneficial partnership between Rabat and London, said Joe Powell, a Labour member of the House of Commons (the lower house of the British Parliament).