Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Choukri reaffirmed Egypt's attachment to Morocco's territorial unity and its support for the autonomy initiative submitted by the Kingdom to put an end to the Sahara conflict.

Reports of increased cooperation between Polisario and the Al-Qaeda terrorist group in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said the Swedish journalist Bengt Nilsson G, for whom Morocco is "one of the few countries in the region to actively fight against Islamist terrorists".

The speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mr. Cipriano Cassama, reiterated Wednesday in Rabat support of his country to the Moroccan Sahara.

Morocco has always been in favour of normalising relations with Algeria, which is called upon to fully assume its responsibility in the settlement of the Sahara issue, Minister Delegate to the Foreign Minister, Mbarka Bouaida said on Tuesday.

The prestigious Crans Montana Forum has chosen the Moroccan city of Dakhla as the host of its 9th annual session on March 4-6, 2015 under the theme “Africa and South-South Cooperation South”.