Morocco has always been in favour of normalising relations with Algeria, which is called upon to fully assume its responsibility in the settlement of the Sahara issue, Minister Delegate to the Foreign Minister, Mbarka Bouaida said on Tuesday.

The prestigious Crans Montana Forum has chosen the Moroccan city of Dakhla as the host of its 9th annual session on March 4-6, 2015 under the theme “Africa and South-South Cooperation South”.

Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received Tuesday afternoon at the headquarters of the council in Rabat, a delegation of young leaders from Europe and North America, visiting Morocco as part of a cultural exchange program under the auspices of the civilizations Alliance within the United Nations.

Secretary executive of the Forum of Presiding Officers of Legislative Assemblies of Central America and the Caribbean Basin (FOPREL) Santiago Rivas Leclair described the autonomy proposal in the Sahara, under the Moroccan sovereignty, as a revolutionary and very advanced solution for the final settlement of this issue.

Kidnapping young girls in the Tindouf camps, the latest being Darya Embark Salma, are only the visible part of the iceberg in this lawless area where moral values have reached a very critical degradation, said spokesman of the Association of Moroccan Sahrawi tribes in Europe (ATSME), Lahcen Mahraoui.