The British monthly North-South stressed that the latest statements by the Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Sahara, Mr. Peter van Walsum, saying that independence in the Sahara is not realistic, is part of a reality shared by UN diplomatic circles.

The Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute in the Sahara region was explained Tuesday in Mexico City, at a conference held by Abdellahi Ahl Abdelkader, a member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs(Corcas).

The preservation of Morocco’s territorial unity "is one of our main constants," said the secretary general of the World Mediation Forum, Mr. Marwane El Faouri.

Polisario separatists and their supporters in Algeria have only one objective: that of perpetuating the talk process on the future of the Sahara, UN Secretary General personal envoy to the Sahara, Peter van Walsum said.

The President of the Colombian Conservative Party, Senator Efrain Jose Cepeda Sarabia reaffirmed its full support to the efforts carried out by Morocco with good faith to reach a political, consensual and final settlement to the Sahara issue, said Moroccan diplomatic sources in Bogota.