The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs participates with a senior delegation to the Pacific regional seminar of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from May 31 to June 2.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, received on Wednesday in Rabat a delegation from the Italian Parliament, led by Mr. Stefano Stefani, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

 The United Nations Security Council extended, on Wednesday, for another year the mandate of the MINURSO and urged, for the first time, Algeria to allow the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west).
 

While announcements of the withdrawal of recognition of the so-called Polisario Republic by some countries continue, statements supporting autonomy project in the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty increase. The most recent ones, and surely not the last, are those of Macedonia and the Comoros Islands.

The last report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Sahara highlighted last week  Morocco's efforts to strengthen the institutional framework in promoting and protecting human rights, without referring to the" expansion of the MINURSO mission ", or any "control mechanism" of human rights in the Sahara .