The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants USCRI stressed that the residents of Tindouf camps are forced to attend military training before being shipped to Cuba. In its 2008 annual report, USCRI, an American NGO based in Washington, said that six former Sahrawi inmates have testified before the Belgian parliament that Polisario had forced them to undergo military training in Tindouf before being shipped to Cuba. "The Polisario has banned several people returning to the region of the Moroccan Sahara," says the NGO, adding that residents have expressed their intention to return and some of them have managed to reach Morocco through Mauritania.

United States President, Georges W. Bush, has confirmed that Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces -the Sahara- under the kingdom's sovereignty, is the only solution to the 32-year old dispute over the former Spanish colony, and insisted that an independent State, as claimed by the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario", is not a realistic option.

The Republic of Kenya continues to support the UN Security Council's stance regarding the Sahara issue, affirmed, here Wednesday, visiting Kenyan Vice Prime Minister and Trade Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta.

The director of the french Observatory of Geopolitical Studies (OEG), Mr. Charles Saint-Prot, said that the Algerian theories concerning the Sahara "are no longer topical" and that "Algiers obstinacy puts the region in danger."  Speaking on Monday in Paris, during a panel discussion under the theme: "Morocco facing the challenges of human development, modernity and globalization", organized by the Moroccan Section of the International Senior Movement, Mr. Saint-Prot, who discussed the concept of autonomy, regionalization and peace, noted that the historic claim of Morocco over the Sahara is legitimate in particular regarding the links it has always had with this region for centuries.

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the French parliament, Axel Poniatowski, deemed on Monday "inappropriate" the initiative by a French communist MP to organize a conference on the Moroccan Sahara in the Palais de Bourbon on Thursday.