The 4th commission of the UN general assembly adopted on Monday a draft resolution on the Sahara issue .sending a strong signal of support to the process of direct negotiations between parties concerned . The General Assembly expresses "satisfaction that the parties have met on 18 and 19 June and on 10 and 11 August 2007 under the auspices of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary General and in the presence of the neighbouring countries and that they have agreed to continue the negotiations," reads the draft resolution, whose final adoption will take place at a forthcoming plenary session of the 62nd session of the UNGA.

The Australian journalists Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw, underlined on Thursday in New York that slavery is a common and institutionalized practice in Tindouf camps controlled by the separatist movement polisario “Slavery is a genuine institution in the Tindouf camps” asserted Viola ayala at the time of a meeting with the press at the headquarter of the UN; she was very surprised, when herself and her colleague discovered the scale of the phenomenon. Both Australian journalists went to Tindouf in Algeria to produce a documentary about

The Moroccan autnomy initiative aims at searching a realistic  political solution to the deadlock of the Western Sahara issue, asserted on Thursday Mr Fabian Martin Martin deputy head of the Lanzarote  government, and general secretary of the independents party of Lanzarote in the canaries islands.Mr Martin who took the floor before the 4th commission of the general assembly, mentioned that the Moroccan proposal grants substantial powers to the local populations “at the political, administrative, economic, and social levels”

Negotiations about Sahara” would never have taken place without the Moroccan proposal for autonomy» asserted on Wednesday the chairwoman of the British NGO “family protection” Mrs Jane standing, in her speech before the 4th commission of he general assembly of the UN. She added that here it is a case of «decisive turning that the international community should manage with plenty of caution, and wisdom”, she equally noted that “ this courageous initiative, in accordance with the autonomy standards adopted in the democratic countries,

The Rio group, which includes twenty countries from South America and Caraibe, asserted on Monday that Manhasset negotiations about the Sahara issue open “interesting perspectives” for a settlement of the conflict; “The recent meetings of Manhasset, engaged in accordance with resolution1754, open interesting perspectives” announced on Monday the representative of the Dominican Republic to the UN Mr Juan Martinez, on behalf of country members of the Rio group, in an intervention before the 4th commission of the general assembly of the UN.