Equatorial Guinea welcomed on Friday at UN headquarters in New York, positive initiatives taken by Morocco to achieve a negotiated political solution to the Sahara issue.

Several experts and observers took the floor at the UN General Assembly 4th commission to affirm the “unrealistic” nature of the separation option as a solution to the Sahara issue, arguing that the Moroccan autonomy proposal remains the “hope for a way out to the crisis”.

Morocco reiterated before the UN fourth committee its steadfast attachment to the political process in the Moroccan Sahara, which necessarily depends on the UN Secretariat’s neutrality and MINURSO’s impartiality.

Morocco called, here Tuesday, for conducting a population census in Tindouf camps as “a prerequisite for sustainable solutions”.

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba reiterated, on Tuesday at the United Nations in New York, the support of his country to the Moroccan autonomy initiative for the settlement of the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.