The statement was made at the end of a meeting between a visiting Moroccan delegation, composed of Foreign minister, Mohamed Benaissa, and chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khalihenna Ould Errachid and Chilean Foreign minister, Alejandro Foxley.
Van Klaveren said his country has welcomed "with interest" this initiative, underlining that Chile backs every peaceful solution to settle the Sahara dispute, which broke out in 1976 when the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists laid claims to the Sahara, a former Spanish colony had retrieved by Morocco a year earlier under the Madrid Accord, stressing the need to reach this agreement within the framework of the UN.
The Chilean official hailed Morocco's efforts to settle the Sahara dispute, noting that his country's stance regarding this issue emanates from its will to back every effort that seeks a peaceful solution to this conflict.