A member of a group of Polisario dissidents, known as "Polisario-Khatt Achahid" (line of the martyr), was arrested in Tindouf (southwestern Algeria) by the polisario's militias, Sahrawi activists in Spain said on Wednesday.

Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri said on Tuesday that no settlement of the Sahara issue is possible outside of a regional, consensual, and political solution in the strict respect for Morocco's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco is seeking a solution to the Sahara dispute based on common ground rather than conflict, former assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asia affairs, Frederick Vreeland, underlined on Sunday.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Welch, said, here Thursday, that his country hopes for continuing the political process to find a solution to the Sahara dispute.
 

 Morocco welcomes with great satisfaction the adoption by consensus, Tuesday, by the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly, of the resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, said Wednesday Foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri.