"If Algeria so wishes, the Sahara issue could be resolved within days or weeks," head of the Moroccan government, Abdelilah Benkirane, said in an interview with the Spanish daily "El Pais", published on Monday.

France reiterated on Friday its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan, after Morocco’s decision to withdraw its confidence in the UNSG personal envoy for the Sahara Christopher Ross, calling for a “swift settlement of the dispute”.

The Ministerial Conference of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) expressed on Thursday after finishing its works in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, its support to the negotiations process on the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara within the UN framework to reach a "mutually acceptable political solution".

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Saad El Dine Otmani, discussed during an interview Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York, a series of issues relating particularly to the national cause and the latest on regional and international developments.

Tindouf camps have become, under Polisario influence, a haven for criminal activity of all kinds based on growing links between strong leaders of the separatists and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM ), according to a report released by the NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center, based in Norfolk in the U.S. State of Virginia.