Colombian Foreign Minister reaffirmed that his country maintains since 2001 its freezing of the recognition of the so-called SADR.

The International Action for peace and development in the Great Lakes region (AIPD) denounced human rights violations in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west) and called on the African community to exert pressure towards ensuring "freedom of speech and movement for the Tindouf population."

The last round of informal on the Sahara issue, held recently in Malta, was a "step forward" in this process, said the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

The sixth round of informal talks on the Sahara, held on March 7-9 in Mellieha ( Malta), was an opportunity to raise a number of observations on the limits of the so-called polisario's proposal, based on obsolete theses regarding their inapplicable reference and content, Morocco's Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said Thursday in Rabat.
    

Algeria was criticized on Tuesday at a plenary session of the UN Council of Human Rights (UNHRC) in Geneva, for its responsibility for the plight of Mostapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud prohibited to rejoin his family in the Tindouf camps.