Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, said that thanks to the political genius and vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Morocco has made several achievements in the Sahara issue, which have strengthened its position on the international level. Mr. El Fassi, who received Monday evening, representatives of the national press, said that the world is now aware of the rightness of Morocco's position, mentioning in this context, the statements by the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Van Walsum, who said that the option of independence is "unrealistic".

State and Government heads of member countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa meeting on June 23-25 in the Cameroonian capital, "welcomed" the initiative of Morocco seeking to grant a statute of wide autonomy in the Sahara, describing it an option that "could maintain the momentum in the negotiating process towards a mutually acceptable political solution."

Senegalese ambassador in Rabat, Ibou Ndiaye, reiterated, here Thursday, that his country backs "without reserve" Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to the kingdom's Southern Provinces. "Senegal, we will never repeat it enough, backs without reserve the Moroccan initiative for a substantial autonomy in the kingdom's Southern Provinces," Ndiaye affirmed at the opening of the 2nd Senegalese cultural week in Morocco, held on June 26-28.    "This was our stand before the Manhasset talks, and it remained so during and after the talks," he underlined.

A delegation of the emissaries of king Mohammed VI , composed of Foreign minister, Taïb Fassi Fihri, and head of the Moroccan intelligence (DGED), Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, paid visit to Yaounde on the fringes of the summit of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), held on June 23-25.

The Moroccan initiative autonomy for the Sahara is a democratic option for progress towards a final  settlement of the artificial conflict created around the territorial integrity of Morocco, said Tuesday Pr Abdelhamid El Ouali. In a statement to the MAP on the sidelines of a reception held at the headquarters of the British Parliament in London in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the publication of his book "Autonomy in the Sahara, a prelude of Maghreb regions," Prof. El Ouali stressed that the draft submitted by Morocco has the merit of taking the best in the different experiences that have been successful in the world, including Finland and Spain.