New York (United Nations) - The UN Security Council commended again on Friday the role of the Regional Commissions of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) in Laayoune and Dakhla, and Morocco's interaction with the mechanisms of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

New York (United Nations) - The United Nations Security Council reiterated on Friday its "concern" over the provocations and violations by the Polisario of military agreements in the Sahara, while calling on the separatist movement to respect its "commitments" made in this regard to the former Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Horst Köhler.

New York (United Nations) - The United Nations Security Council welcomed, on Friday, the new impetus given by the round tables between Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario, thus endorsing these round tables as the only process aimed at achieving a consensual political solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

New York (United Nations) - Resolution N° 2548, adopted on Friday by the UN Security Council, once again confirmed Algeria as a main party to the process aimed at achieving " a political, realistic, pragmatic and lasting solution" to the Sahara issue, "which is based on compromise."

New York (United Nations) - The UN Security Council decided, on Friday, to extend by one year MINURSO's mandate, reaffirming anew the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.

Rabat - Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, on Friday held talks in Rabat with his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta, which focused on the means to strengthen cooperation and partnership relations between Rabat and Kigali in several areas.