Foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar received, on Thursday in Rabat, UNSG personal envoy for the Sahara Christopher Ross who is on a visit to Morocco as part of a regional tour.

An amendment to a draft report on human rights and the European Union’s policy presented by handful of anti-Moroccan members of the European parliament on the Sahara was rejected on Monday by the majority of their peers.

The Canario-Saharan Forum, an association based in Las Palmas and brings together citizens of the Moroccan Sahara and Canary Islands, denounced on Monday embezzlement by leaders of Polisario and Algeria of humanitarian aid to populations in camps Tindouf (southern Algeria).

Mrs. Kim Bolduc, new special representative of the UN Secretary General to the Sahara, said she was "very honored" to assume mission in Morocco.

Morocco obtained guaranties about the handling of the Sahara affair following the telephone conversation of his Majesty King Mohammed VI with the UN secretary- General BanKi-Moon during last month of January, indicated in Rabat Minister of Foreign affairs and cooperation Mr Salaheddine Mezouar .