Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed expressed, on Sunday in Male, his country's support to Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara.

Members of the UN Security Council (SC) have unanimously reiterated their support for the efforts of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, the president of the council for this month told the press on Thursday in New York.

UN Security General Ban Ki-Moon recommended to the Security Council the extension of the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) for a further period of one year until April 30, 2011.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received Thursday at the Council headquarters in Rabat, a delegation from Convergence for Mali's Development Party (CODEM), chaired by 1st Vice-President, Mamadou Diakite. 

The vast majority of the sequestered population in the camps of Tindouf, south-western Algeria, support Morocco's autonomy initiative for the Sahara and are in general disappointed by the failed promises of the polisario, said the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.