Algeria uses the Sahara issue to lure domestic public opinion and try to convince it of the existence of an external threat, claimed two members accompanying the Moroccan delegation to the negotiations in Manhasset.

Minister of the Interior Chakib Benmoussa on Saturday said Morocco continues to extend its hand to the other party (the Polisario separatists) to reach together a solution to the Sahara dispute in the framework of the North African country's proposed autonomy to this territory.

The Seychelles Islands, on Monday, announced it had withdrawn its recognition of the so-called Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

The chairman of the Advisory Council for Human Rights, Mr. Ahmed Harzanni said that Algeria is "responsible for" the suffering of the Moroccans detained in the Tindouf camps

The Sahrawi Group for Human Rights Defence (CSDDH) launched on Monday from Geneva, which was holding the 7th session of the Human Rights Council, an urgent appeal to the UN Secretary General and the international community to intervene in order to put an end to human rights violations by "Polisario", whose victims are sequestered in the Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria).