Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, received on Wednesday in Rabat a delegation from the Italian Parliament, led by Mr. Stefano Stefani, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Taib Fassi Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation said in his speech Thursday before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, National defense and Islamic Affairs of the House of Representatives, that the legitimacy of the Moroccan position is getting stronger significantly against the parallel decline of the arguments of the opponents of Morocco’s territorial integrity, which is the result of efforts made by Moroccan both official and parallel diplomacy.

The United Nations Security Council extended, on Wednesday, for another year the mandate of the MINURSO and urged, for the first time, Algeria to allow the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west).

While announcements of the withdrawal of recognition of the so-called Polisario Republic by some countries continue, statements supporting autonomy project in the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty increase. The most recent ones, and surely not the last, are those of Macedonia and the Comoros Islands.

The last report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Sahara highlighted last week  Morocco's efforts to strengthen the institutional framework in promoting and protecting human rights, without referring to the" expansion of the MINURSO mission ", or any "control mechanism" of human rights in the Sahara .