The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed, on Monday, "disappointment" following the prevention by the polisario of 20 Moroccan beneficiaries of the family-visit flights programme from disembarking at the Tindouf airport.

A delegation of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) is taking part in the 15th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), held in Geneva from September 13 to October 1.

Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Khalihenna Ould Errachid, received Wednesday, September 15, 2010, a delegation from the French Senate, composed of members of France-Morocco friendship group.

Christian Cambon, president of the group of friendship between France's Senate and Morocco's House of Councillors (upper house), said on Monday that Paris supports the kingdom's efforts to reach a political solution to the Sahara issue.

Spain is calling for a "just, final and lasting" solution for the Sahara conflict, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Friday in Madrid.