"Autonomy is the rational and realistic solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue because it is the most practical, due to the inapplicability of self-determination", said the editor of the Qatari newspaper "Al - Watan "," Mr. Ahmed Ali. Commenting a letter from the ambassador of Algeria in Doha, issued Wednesday by the newspaper, in the wake of several interviews conducted by Al-Watan with Moroccan officials, Mr. Ali explained that the failure stems "from the complexity of the Sahara issue and the absence of a mechanism to identify Sahrawi people".

The Sahara issue, opposing Morocco to the Algerian-backed Polisario separatists is "the main obstacle" to development in the Maghreb region (a regional grouping also including Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya), President of the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (PMUC) said on Wednesday.

The British government voiced satisfaction over the continuation of the negotiation process on the Sahara issue under the aegis of the United Nations, says the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in its annual report on human rights in the world, released Tuesday.The "Human Rights Annual report 2007" recalls that the United Kingdom welcomed the talks held in June and August 2007 and January 2008, and encourages the parties to the conflict to continue this process, meant to solve the 32-year-old dispute over this former Spanish colony.

Morocco remains committed to the UN-led negotiations on the Sahara dispute (opposing the North African country and the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario"), reiterated, here Tuesday, the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, making it clear however that these negotiations should be based on the autonomy and "nothing but autonomy".

The proposal to grant broad autonomy to the Sahara region is a "great success" of the Moroccan diplomacy in its efforts to find a final settlement of this regional dispute, "said the president of the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (PMUC), Mr. Saleh Ould Mohamed Ould Hanana. M. Ould Hanana, who was speaking during an interview on Monday in Rabat with the President of National Rally of Independents (RNI), Mr. Mustapha Mansouri, bilieved that the region would not create a non-viable state, stressing that logic dictates that efforts should rather be directed towards the establishment of a regional grouping.In this context, he wished that a solution could be found as quickly as possible to Sahara conflict, within the framework of resolutions 1754 and 1783 of the Security Council, thereby facilitating the construction of the Arab Maghreb Union .