Mail & Guardian, South Africa's widely circulated daily, criticized South Africa's position on the Sahara issue on Tuesday, pointing out that by joining Polisario separatists, Pretoria is contradicting itself with the majority of African countries.

The issue of the Moroccan Sahara is a question of territorial integrity and not of "decolonization", said Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, who was speaking at the C24 session in New York.

The Moroccan Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara region was strongly supported by a majority of member states of the Committee of 24, Subsidiary Body of the UN General Assembly. This Initiative, described as serious and credible by the Security Council since 2007, seeks to reach a negotiated and definitive political solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

The kingdom of Morocco and the Federal Republic of Nigeria issued a joint communiqué following the official working and friendship visit to the Kingdom by Nigerian President, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, on June 10-11.

The College of Commissioners adopted, Monday, the exchange of letters which includes the Moroccan Sahara in the agriculture agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU), said the European Commission.