The Mauritanian Democratic Socialist Party called on Tuesday the international community and regional and international humanitarian organizations to carry out an investigation to clarify the fate of 150 Mauritanian nationals missing in the Tindouf camps in southern Algeria. "The Party and the Mauritanian people refuse to remain silent about this matter and demand an international inquiry on these abducted and tortured people, some of which were even killed in Polisario jails," said the President Isselkou Ould Rabbani, at a press conference, attended by several family members of the missing people. 

A delegation from the southern provinces of the Kingdom began Monday, a visit to the Canary Islands, to discuss ways to further strengthen cooperative relations between the Spanish archipelago and this region of southern Morocco. The delegation is composed of Mr. Dahi Ahmed, member of the Central Committee of the Istiqlal Party (PI), Fala Bossoula, MP from the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) in Laayoune, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoud Terrouzi, president of the provincial council and member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS),

 Participants at a conference on the Sahara held Friday evening in Amsterdam, have highlighted the positive momentum initiated by the Moroccan autonomy initiative and its relevance as the only solution able to reunite Sahrawi families. At this conference organized by the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam, participants also welcomed the support of the international community to the Moroccan proposal, which is based on a participatory and democratic move enabling residents of the southern provinces to manage their own affairs and exercise their full rights.

Moroccan Initiative for Negotiating an Autonomy Statute for the Sahara is characterized by its boldness, its comprehensiveness and its modernity, said the participants at an international symposium on "the statute of regional autonomy in Comparative Law" held Friday in Barcelona. 

The Sahara conflict, which was inherited from the Cold War, has no meaning today in the 21st century, European Parliament Member Fernando Fernandez Martin, said here Thursday.    "The best solution to this conflict of the past century is to enable Sahrawi families to meet again," Mr. Fernandez Martin told MAP following a meeting with a group of Moroccan Sahrawis on a visit to the European Parliament to testify on the ordeal they underwent by the Polisario in the Camps of Tindouf, south-western Algeria.