Morocco expressed on Wednesday before the UN Commission on Human Rights its concern about the continuing practices of slavery and forced labor by the leaders of the Polisario against certain groups of the population in the Tindouf camps, where Moroccan citizens are detained and deprived of return to their homeland. 

Morocco's initiative to grant broader autonomy to its southern provinces makes a "good contribution" to reaching a negotiated solution to the 34-year-old dispute over the Sahara, Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremic, said on Monday.

Khalihenna Mr. Ould Rachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received on Monday, September 14, 2009, Mr. Alberto Van Klaaveren, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Chile, at the Council headquarters in Rabat.

The High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, attended, Saturday in the southern city of Es-Smara, the HCR-led family visit exchange.

The refusal by Algeria and the Polisario separatists to conduct a census of the population held in Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria, impedes the mission of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the region, Ahmedou Ould Souilem,former Polisario leader, said.