The 7th round of informal talks on the Sahara, which will last three days, until June 7, kicked off Sunday with the presence of the parties’ representatives.

 The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs participates with a senior delegation to the Pacific regional seminar of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from May 31 to June 2.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, received on Wednesday in Rabat a delegation from the Italian Parliament, led by Mr. Stefano Stefani, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Taib Fassi Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation said in his speech Thursday before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, National defense and Islamic Affairs of the House of Representatives, that the legitimacy of the Moroccan position is getting stronger significantly against the parallel decline of the arguments of the opponents of Morocco’s territorial integrity, which is the result of efforts made by Moroccan both official and parallel diplomacy.

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).