The ninth round of informal talks on Western Sahara, under the UN aegis, will take place on March 11, 12 and 13 in Manhasset, New York outskirts.

The Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights organized on 11 February, in cooperation with the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), a study day in Laayoune.

The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, received on Tuesday at the headquarters of Corcas in Rabat, a delegation of prominent researchers from the Italian Institute of Political Studies, which is paying a visit to Morocco particularly in the southern provinces.

 The next informal talks on Western Sahara will be held in early February in Manhasset (United States), said the UN on Tuesday.

The United States continues to support a “peaceful, sustainable and mutually agreed upon solution” to the Sahara issue, said on Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following a meeting with her Algerian peer Mourad Medelci.