The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs is taking part with the official delegation of the Kingdom of Morocco in the thirty-ninth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which opened on Monday, September 10, 2018.

"There is no doubt about development" in Morocco’s southern provinces, said, Tuesday in Laayoune, French MEP Patricia Lalonde of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group, INTA Committee rapporteur on international trade and agreements for Mediterranean countries.

A delegation of members of the European Parliament (MEPs), currently on a working visit to the Kingdom, visited Dakhla on Monday, where they saw the benefits of the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement for the population of the Kingdom's southern provinces.

The benefits of fisheries and agricultural incomes for the population of the southern provinces were highlighted at the European Parliament during an exchange of views, Tuesday, with European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Pierre Moscovici.

The members of the Laayoune Sakia-El Hamra Council unanimously announced on Wednesday their support for the new fisheries agreement initialed by Morocco and the European Union (EU). This support was expressed during an extraordinary session chaired by the president of the region, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid, in the presence of the wali of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra, governor of the province of Laayoune, Yahdih Bouchab.