Visiting Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, held, here Tuesday, talks with German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on the Sahara issue as well as on several points regarding the Middle East, the Maghreb, the Euro-Mediterranean partnership and the situation in Africa.  

Indonesia expresses its "appreciation" about the Moroccan "tenacity" to resolve the Sahara issue "through dialogue and negotiation", said Sunday in Rabat, the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nur Hassan Wirajuda. Mr. Wirajuda made the statement to the press, on the sidelines of the meeting of the 1-era session of the Moroccan-Indonesian Joint Committee of economic, scientific and technical cooperation co-chaired by foreign ministers of both countries.  Indonesia, added the minister, welcomed the determination of Morocco to continue the dialogue towards a peaceful solution to this issue, to ensure "peace and security" in the region. "Indonesia continues to support strongly the efforts of the United Nations

The Moroccan autonomy proposal for the Sahara is "immensely generous" and is "the best possible decision", said on Thursday in Rabat, the Chairman of the Professional Chamber of mediation and Negotiation (CPMN - France), M . Jean-Louis Lascoux. At a meeting with the press on the sidelines of the first seminar on mediation in Morocco which began on Tuesday under the theme: "Mediation: a factor of socio-economic stability," Mr. Lascoux stressed that autonomy "would be the best possible way-out, given the organization of today's world." According to the French mediator, the Moroccan proposal is likely "to allow people who are part of the same family find ways to live together, respecting cultural specificities". It suggests that "unity for parties is the best possible solution."

Participants at a roundtable in Geneva over the Sahara were unanimous in stressing the relevance of the Moroccan autonomy initiative in the southern provinces, which was, they said, "the best solution" to this ongoing conflict. 

The U.S. daily "New York Times" published Wednesday an article recounting "the harsh living conditions'' in the Polisario camps in Tindouf, south-west Algeria.  The newspaper reported testimonies of members of a delegation of former hostages in the Tindouf camps, having paid a visit to the United States early May to speak to officials, congressmen and American media about the plight of populations in those camps. "New York Times" says that members of the delegation described the camps as "prisons where corruption reigns''. Quoted by the newspaper, Said Abderahman, explained how he fled the Tindouf camps with his wife Salma Essalek who was pregnant, stating they were chased by "Polisario" agents through a minefield