The chairman of the royal council for Saharan affairs Mr Khlihenna ould Errachid  met on Wednesday at the headquarter of he CORCAS in Rabat Mr Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle President of the Chilean senate who is paying an official visit to Morocco. During the discussion the Chilean Senate president reiterated his country’s support to a political solution to the Sahara conflict based on negotiations and to the present process of negotiations organized under the auspices of the United Nations.

The Moroccan initiative for negotiating an autonomy statute for the Sahara region constitutes “an important step” and “an historical opportunity” to settle the Sahara issue, which lasted more than three decades, asserted the leader of the Chilean parliament Mr Patricio Walker Prieto In a statement to The MAP at the end of his meeting with the chairman of the royal advisory council for Saharan affairs ( CORCAS) Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid , the Chilean official underlined the necessity to make use f this initiative

The Moroccan initiative for negotiating an autonomy statute for the Sahara region constitutes “an important step” and “an historical opportunity” to settle the Sahara issue, which lasted more than three decades, asserted the leader of the Chilean parliament Mr Patricio Walker Prieto

The Sahara issue was always discussed from the international point of view, whereas there are other important dimensions such as the social links which exist between the inhabitants of the Sahara and the rest of the Moroccan society that did not attract the attention that they deserve estimated Mr Cherkaoui an imminent academic and researcher in the field of sociology. In a article published on Wednesday in the American daily newspaper “Washington Times” Mr Mohammed cherkaoui who is also head of research in the national centre of

 King Mohammed VI on Tuesday made it clear that Morocco will accept nothing but autonomy for its Southern Provinces (the Sahara) under the Kingdom's sovereignty. "Whatever the nature of the consensual solution to which a serious, comprehensive, strategic negotiating process might lead, Morocco, its King and people, will not accept anything but autonomy, within the framework of a single, unified State," The monarch said in a nationwide speech marking the 32nd anniversary of the Green March. Morocco celebrates every November 6 the anniversary