Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said, Thursday night in Manhasset, the underway normalization process of relations between Morocco and Algeria is likely to "contribute to the resolution" of the Sahara issue.

The works of the 8th round of informal talks on the Sahara opened, on Wednesday in Manhasset (New York's suburbs) in the presence of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the polisario, said to MAP the Office of the UN spokesman.

The delegations of the parties to informal talks on the Sahara continue their talks Wednesday, at the eighth round, which runs from 19 to 21 July at the invitation of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the UN, Christopher Ross.

"The terrified,'' the film that was projected for the first time Wednesday in Rabat is a documentary film about the violations of human rights in the Tindouf camps.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, met on Friday at the Council’s headquarters a delegation from the Colombian parliament on a working visit to Morocco June 19-25.