Taib Fassi Fihri added, in a meeting with the foreign-affairs, occupied areas and national defense committee at the House of Councillors, that the report upset the enemies of the Kingdom's territorial integrity, as it ignored altogether their goals by making no reference to expanding the mission of the UN mission to the Sahara (MINURSO).

    The report also lauded Morocco's efforts to reinforce the rule of law (the establishment of a National Council on Human Rights, the mediator institution and the inter-ministerial delegation in charge of human rights), he said.

    The minister added that the report confirmed the official toll given by the Moroccan authorities, which belies claims of a "genocide and cleansing" alleged by the enemies of Morocco's territorial integrity, as well as their base exploitation of the question of human rights.

   On the negotiating process, Fassi Fihri said the report supports the political dimension and the negotiation, while the adversaries seek to thwart this process.

    He underlined that the Secretary-General adopts a number of options advocated by Morocco, especially with regard to involving representatives of the southern provinces in the negotiations, which makes unfounded the polisario’s claim to be the sole representative of the Sahrawis.

     The report, the minister added, noted explicitly that the other parties refused to discuss human rights during the Malta informal round (March 7-9), in contradiction with their previous request at the fifth round (January 2011) to include this issue. This shows, Fassi Fihri said, that it was mere propaganda.

    As regards Algeria’s responsibility, the minister stressed that the report reaffirmed the need for a census of the population of the Tindouf camps, southwest of Algeria, as Morocco has always demanded.

   The Security Council resolution 1979 highlighted, once again, the primacy of Morocco’s autonomy initiative, commending the Kingdom’s serious and credible efforts towards a final political solution, he said.