The communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, said that Mr. Guterres will hold in-depth discussions on all aspects of cooperation between Morocco and the High Commissioner for Refugees, with the Prime Minister and a number of members of the government, as well as with the Presidents of the Consultative Council for Human Rights and the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs.
The communiqué adds that this visit is an appropriate opportunity to raise the situation of Moroccans detained in Tindouf camps, particularly, legal and political responsibilities of Algeria. Under the international conventions to which this country is a party, the organization should carry out its humanitarian mission in full, by counting and registering the Tindouf camps population.
He explained that the census is a fundamental measure of protection, a prelude for the High Commissioner for Refugees, according to its humanitarian tasks, to search for durable solutions for the benefit of people in the camps, especially their final and voluntary return to their home country, their local integration or resettlement in a third country.
On the other hand, the High Commissioner will visit the southern regions of the Kingdom to watch family exchange visits organized in the framework of confidence-building measures, overseen exclusively by the High Commissioner for Refugees and aimed to break the siege on the inhabitants of the Tindouf camps.
It stated that the Kingdom of Morocco, a signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1951 on Refugees and its Protocol of 1967 , a member of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner for Refugees since 1979, maintains close cooperation with the humanitarian organization crowned with the signing of the Headquarters Agreement (July 20, 2007). The Kingdom has always valued and supported the role of protection and assistance carried out by the High Commissioner for Refugees for the benefit of millions of refugees and deportees in all parts of the world.
Source: MAP
(News on Western Sahara issue/ CORCAS)