3/17/2008- Morocco called, here Sunday, upon the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" and Algeria to give up "unworkable claims" and show good faith in negotiations to move forward towards a consensus-based political solution to the 32-year Sahara dispute.

3/14/2008 - The 4th round Negotiations over the Sahara to resume Sunday, in Manhasset, near New York, as agreed at the end of the last meeting held from January 7-9. 

(2/29/2008) The Moroccan government on Thursday called on the other parties, in particular Algeria, to participate positively in the upcoming UN-led talks on the Sahara dispute on the basis of Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces.

2/27/2008 - Nearly one hundred Sahrawis have returned, during the last twenty four hours, to the Motherland from the Tindouf camps in Algeria, three groups consisting of several persons that took part in Gjijimat congress, held last December in Tifariti region, in the Moroccan Sahara.

(2/25/2008) Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi said that the Moroccan proposal to grant broad autonomy to the southern provinces was "a consensual solution in conformity with Security Council resolutions" for the settlement of the Sahara issue.