By further emphasizing the operationalization of the refugee census, UN Security Council Resolution 2654 on the Moroccan Sahara puts Morocco “in a position of strength”, said Mohamed Loulichki, Senior Fellow of the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS).

Resolution 2654 is an important step in the process of settling the Sahara issue, said Morocco's Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, noting that it is a text "structuring in the arsenal of Security Council resolutions."

Wallonia considers the autonomy plan, presented in 2007 by Morocco, as "a good basis" for a solution accepted by all parties regarding the Sahara issue, said Thursday in Rabat, the Minister-President of this Belgian region, Elio Di Rupo.

Several African ambassadors welcomed, Tuesday evening in Libreville, the progress made in the Southern Provinces of Morocco during a ceremony organized by the diplomatic representation of the Kingdom in Gabon in celebration of the forty-seventh anniversary of the Glorious Green March.

A total of sixteen former African prime ministers and foreign ministers launched, on Friday in Tangier, a solemn appeal for the expulsion of the so-called 'sadr' from the African Union (AU).