The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid received at the Council headquarters in Rabat on Monday, a delegation from the Australian Senate consisting of 20 Senators.

Morocco submitted during the fourth round of informal talks on the Sahara, which ended on Saturday in Manhasset, "a number of concrete initiatives and proposals to give a chance" to the negotiation process and spur it according to "innovative approaches," Moroccan Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said.

The Moroccan delegation to the 4th round of UN-sponsored informal talks on the Sahara (December 16-18) arrived, Thursday afternoon, in Greentree, Manhasset (outskirts of New York).

The European Union attaches great importance to the UN-brokered talks on the Sahara, said, on Monday in Brussels, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Steven Vanackere.

Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said on Friday that Morocco and the polisario will hold a fourth informal meeting on December 16-17-18 in the suburbs of New York, and another one is scheduled for early 2011.