Free and fair elections are the only way to select qualified officials to run public affairs and represent Sahrawis, said the head of Dakhla and Oued Eddahab Khatat Yanja before the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York Wednesday.

The Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Khalihenna Ould Errachid, met on Thursday, October 11, 2018, with Patricia Teran Basso, representing Ecuador at the Parliament of the Andean Group.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) reaffirmed, Monday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, its "strong support" to the UN efforts aimed at reaching "a fair, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution" to the Sahara issue.

The UNSG report to the Security Council denounces the Polisario's hampering of MINURSO actions, notably the activities of the Special Representative and the free movement of the Mission's military observers.

In his report on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, issued today, UNSG Antonio Gutrerres informed members of the Security Council that the "Kingdom of Morocco responded positively, on Oct. 2, to the invitation of my Personal Envoy to an initial round table in Geneva", on Dec. 5-6, 2018.