Members of both Houses of Parliament on Monday highly praised the contents of the Royal Office statement issued on October 30 following the UN Security Council meeting on the Moroccan Sahara issue, as well as the efforts made by Moroccan diplomacy to definitively settle this artificial conflict.

Members of both Houses of Parliament on Monday highly praised the contents of the Royal Office statement issued on October 30 following the UN Security Council meeting on the Moroccan Sahara issue, as well as the efforts made by Moroccan diplomacy to definitively settle this artificial conflict.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz stated on Friday before the Security Council that Minurso, whose mandate was not renewed, "unfortunately became a permanent monument to something that could not work."

Here follows a statement by the Royal Office :

Major General Jawwad Ahmed, the new Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom, was received on Thursday at the Headquarters of the Southern Zone in Agadir by Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid, FAR Inspector General and Commander of the Southern Zone.