The Egyptian daily "Al Ahram" stressed Sunday the importance of achieving a "solution" for the settlement of the Sahara issue, an outcome that "reflects the sense of political realism and facts on the ground ". This solution will help achieve “the minimum Moroccan demands about the preservation of its territorial integrity" and let people in the Sahara the right "to express their cultural and civilizational specificities and handle their own affairs" said the newspaper.

Morocco proved good will during the recent negotiations on the Sahara dispute with Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" in Manhasset (outskirts of New York), unlike the "negative, fixed, and sterile attitude of the other party," minister of Communication and Government spokesperson, Khalid Naciri, said on Thursday.

Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara is "very realistic and objective," which can bring stability to the region, Bulgarian deputy minister of foreign affairs, Feim Tchaouchev said on Wednesday."The autonomy proposal of the southern provinces is a good basis," Mr. Tchaouchev told MAP following a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister, Taieb Fassi Fihri. The North African kingdom had proposed to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces,

The Special Committee in charge of the Moroccan Sahara in Europe (CSCSME) was received Monday at the Cuban Embassy in Paris, for talks on the plight of children forcibly deported to Cuba by Polisario separatists. During the meeting with Cuban diplomats, CSCSME chairman, Mr. El Hassan Benhamou, told his interlocutors, Mr. Leydo Rodriguez Hernandez, political adviser, and Ernesto Rey Pino, first secretary, about the suffering of sahrawi families and mothers detained in Tindouf in Algeria et deprived of their children.

The dissident Polisario movement "Khat Achahid" called for the formation of a new delegation, which able to negotiate the autonomy proposal presented by Morocco, calling on Algeria to "stop interfering" in the Affairs of the Saharans.  "We call for the formation of a new delegation whose members would be really competent and who would have enough conscience to negotiate the enlarged autonomy plan proposed by Morocco," says "Khat Achahid" in a press release, the outlines of which were published Tuesday by "Liberation" paper.