Morocco said, on Saturday, it is deeply satisfied with the adoption, on April 30, by the United Nation's Security Council, of resolution 1871 on the Moroccan Sahara issue.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mustapha Mansouri, held here on Monday talks with visiting Speaker of Gambian parliament, Fatoumata Jahumpa Ceesay, on the means to foster bilateral cooperation.

The Moroccan proposal to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is a "good basis for negotiations" to settle the Sahara issue, Governor of the State of Virginia, Timothy Kaine said.

Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have favourably welcomed the UN Secretary General's latest report on the Sahara, Chairman of the Council and Mexican ambassador, Claude Heller, said on Wednesday.

Equatoguinean President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has expressed "his support to the Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara" and reiterated "the strong and constant support" of his country to Morocco to achieve a peaceful and lasting settlement of this conflict, under Morocco's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.