UN Security General Ban Ki-Moon recommended to the Security Council the extension of the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) for a further period of one year until April 30, 2011.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received Thursday at the Council headquarters in Rabat, a delegation from Convergence for Mali's Development Party (CODEM), chaired by 1st Vice-President, Mamadou Diakite. 

The vast majority of the sequestered population in the camps of Tindouf, south-western Algeria, support Morocco's autonomy initiative for the Sahara and are in general disappointed by the failed promises of the polisario, said the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau decided on Tuesday to withdraw its recognition of the so-called 'SADR'.
The announcement was made in Rabat by Guinea-Bissau's State minister and Presidential advisor, El Haj  Dahaba, following a meeting with Morocco's Foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri.

Moroccan foreign minister said Morocco, which is committed to building the Arab Maghreb Union and to Maghreb integration, is determined to reach a consensual settlement of the Sahara issue, within the framework of the autonomy Initiative put forward by the Kingdom.