Autonomy does not mean dividing a country, but rather decentralizing and bringing power closer to citizens for more efficiency in promoting citizens' life style, said visiting president of the Spanish northern autonomous community of La Rioja, Pedro Sanz.

The European Union hailed, Monday, Morocco's serious and credible efforts to reach a political solution to the Sahara issue.

Morocco urged, on Friday, the international community to preserve and consolidate the dynamic of negotiations on the Sahara launched by autonomy proposal, reiterating its sincere will to reach a final solution to this regional disagreement, and to step up the establishing of the Maghreb.

The works of the UN Fourth Committee have been marked by large number of participants. Two issues reigned over most of the petitioners’ speeches who asked to speak on the Sahara issue: condemnation of the lamentable situation and human rights abuses rampant in Polisario camps in Tindouf

The former special representative of UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Erik Jensen, said Wednesday before the 4th United Nations commission that autonomy is the only solution to the Sahara, stressing that "Polisario should abandon some of its aspirations. "