A group of Mauritanian journalists announced the creation in Nouakchott of a platform called "initiative of Mauritanian journalists to support the Moroccan initiative of autonomy". This initiative is open to Mauritanian journalists who are convinced of the legitimacy of the Moroccan position over the Sahara issue and who enjoy credibility on the national media scene, provided they demonstrate "loyalty to Mauritania", said a release sent Monday to MAP. The initiators of this platform justify their support to the Moroccan proposal by the fact that it falls "under the interest of Mauritania" and strengthens "ties between the two brotherly countries and neighbors, united by strong relationship. " 

A ministerial delegation chaired Friday at Laayoune, the demolition of the last al-Wahda unhealthy encampments, announcing the completion of the resettlement of these settlements’ residents and their access to property within a global momentum aimed at improving the lives of people.

The call to change the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Peter van Walsum, is "illogical", said Arabic-language daily "Al-Hayat", deeming that it would result in attempts to "remove an international mediator every time he is not appreciated by one of the parties." The way the UN deals with the Sahara issue requires collaborating partners, as it would not impose a solution on the parties concerned without their consent with regard to its formula or mechanisms aimed at reaching a compromise-based solution, underlined the London-based daily.

The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, received on Friday, at the UN headquarters in New York, a Moroccan delegation composed of MM. Taieb Fassi Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, Executive Officer of Studies and Documentation, accompanied by the permanent representative Ambassador of the Kingdom at the UN, M. El Mostafa Sahel.

The Moroccan autonomy initiative in the Sahara, as part of the national sovereignty of the Kingdom, offers « a political prospect and a logical solution” to an old conflict of more than 30 years, writes the Jordanian daily “Al Ra'i”   In an article of the writer Mohamed Abou Hazim, published Tuesday on his electronic site, the daily stresses that Morocco has presented the autonomy project as a peaceful initiative for settling the conflict around the Sahara, inspired by the United Nations’ proposals and the international standards recognized in this issue.