The delegation is composed of Mr. Dahi Ahmed, member of the Central Committee of the Istiqlal Party (PI), Fala Bossoula, MP from the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) in Laayoune, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoud Terrouzi, president of the provincial council and member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), and Ramdam Messoaud Larbi, CORCAS member and president of the Sahrawi Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADEDH).

The delegation members met with the chairman of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz, M. Pedro J. Rodriguez Zaragoza, focused on ways to strengthen cooperative relations between the two neighbouring regions.  

This meeting was an opportunity for members of the Moroccan delegation to highlight the importance of the autonomy project proposed by Morocco to solve the Sahara conflict, a project which received support from the international community and which is likely to set up stability in the region, said to the MAP M. Ahmed Dahi.

In this regard, the Moroccan delegation also mentioned the recent positive statements made before the security council by the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Mr. Van Walsum.

According to members of the Moroccan delegation, the chairman of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Coalition), said he was intending to pay visit to the southern provinces to establish contacts with local officials and examine opportunities for cooperation and partnership between the port of Santa Cruz and this region of southern Morocco.

Members of the delegation have, similarly, held a meeting with representatives of the local press in Tenerife, during which they highlighted the efforts made by Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, for the consolidation of the democratic edifice.

The delegation will meet, Tuesday, members of the Socialist parliamentary group and will be received by the chairman of the regional parliament, Mr. Antonio Castro Cordobez, from the governing Canary Coalition.

A meeting will be held Wednesday with the head of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands, M. Paulino Rivero Baute, and the mayor of Santa Cruz, M. Miguel Zerolo, both members of the Canary Coalition.

The members of the Moroccan delegation will travel thereafter to Las Palmas for talks with local officials from the island of Gran Canaria.

Source: MAP
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