Young people in the Tindouf camps may fall into the hands of terrorist groups

Before the new informal meeting on the Sahara issue, expected in February, the Information Centre of the United Nations in New York, interviewed on Tuesday, Christopher Ross, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the Sahara, about the situation of this issue.

The Commission for External Relations and Defence at the Belgian Senate rejected, on Tuesday in Brussels, a resolution proposal hostile to the Moroccanity of the Sahara presented by the Flemish nationalist party N-VA (opposition).

Spain hopes that a “just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution” to the Sahara issue will be achieved, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia Margallo said.

France draws attention to the situation of human rights in the camps of Tindouf, in the Algerian territory, which must “be improved” and calls for conducting a census of the camps’ populations, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said.

The Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamadou Tangara reiterated Tuesday in Rabat, his country’s position supporting the Moroccaness of the Sahara, noting that this position "does not suffer from any ambiguity."