The Australian newspaper “The Australian” reckons that Morocco is the most important country in North Africa, with which Australia should improve its political and economic ties. The article adds that Morocco is facing a separatist movement which is supported by Algeria and is equally involved with the well known terrorist movement Al- Qaeda. Knowing that Morocco is one of the main countries directly involved with the western world in terms of fighting against terrorism.

Morocco's Foreign Minister Taïb Fassi Fihri said on Thursday that the success of negotiations on the Sahara remains weak, or even nonexistent in the absence of the other parties' availability to reach a compromise political solution to the Sahara issue.

The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid received at the Council headquarters in Rabat on Monday, a delegation from the Australian Senate consisting of 20 Senators.

Morocco submitted during the fourth round of informal talks on the Sahara, which ended on Saturday in Manhasset, "a number of concrete initiatives and proposals to give a chance" to the negotiation process and spur it according to "innovative approaches," Moroccan Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said.

The Moroccan delegation to the 4th round of UN-sponsored informal talks on the Sahara (December 16-18) arrived, Thursday afternoon, in Greentree, Manhasset (outskirts of New York).