After much procrastination, and despite shameful blackmailing by Algeria and the "polisario", Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud was released, on Tuesday morning in Mauritania, to the care of a delegate from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said Morocco's permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva, Ambassador Omar Hilale.

Several European Parliament members, representing different countries and political backgrounds, deplored the lack of wisdom and shrewdness in addition to the precipitation with which the European Parliament (EP) voted on an unbalanced and unjust resolution towards Morocco, which is a strategic partner of Europe.

The resolution of the European Parliament (EP) is hasty and biased and Morocco will prove, next December, to the European Parliament "the biased, unfair and unbalanced nature of its resolution, and demonstrate the political and legal reality of Laayoune's events, Moroccan Foreign Minister has said.

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero affirmed that the truth, which is uncovering concerning the latest events of Laayoune, will be hard to accept by pro-polisario groups in Spain.

The investigation conducted in Laayoune by the international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed the death toll announced by the Moroccan authorities, HRW emergencies director Peter Boukaert said.