Here follows a statement by the Royal Office:

The proposal for autonomy in the Sahara, submitted by Morocco with a view to resolving this regional dispute, is one of the most advanced models in the world, participants in the “International Academic Seminar on Autonomy Territorial”.

The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a leading Serbian think tank, has looked into the security threat posed by Polisario and its connivance with the Algerian regime to destabilize the Sahel region.

The autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007 to settle the artificial dispute over the Moroccan Sahara enjoys growing support at European and international levels, Portuguese expert and political scientist Raul Braga Pires said on Tuesday.

The Republic of Angola supports a political solution based on compromise to the Sahara dispute.