The EU-Morocco Friendship Group at the European Parliament (EP) "supports" the decision by the Kingdom to withdraw confidence in the personal envoy of UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, said Wednesday in Brussels, its president Gilles Pargneaux.

The Moroccan autonomy initiative is a suitable framework for any discussion on natural resource management in the Sahara, stressed Monday in Geneva several experts at an international seminar on the "management of natural resources under autonomy statutes" .

The last thing Africa needs is another unviable state, which would be a hotbed of terrorist and criminal networks, as evidenced by the serious turn of the Malian crisis and proved collusion between elements of the Polisario and the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), warned participants at a conference in Washington.

 The withdrawal by Morocco of its confidence in the UN personal envoy, Christopher Ross, is "a sovereign decision," said the London-based electronic newspaper Elaph.

Ban Ki-moon had the same reaction when Algeria and Polisario criticized former UN envoy Van Walsum

 The UN Envoy, Christopher Ross went beyond the scope of his mission, accusing Morocco to spy on MINURSO "the (UN) Secretary General perfectly understands that the negotiation process cannot continue under the auspices of Christopher Ross since Morocco is no longer willing to deal with him", said, Samir Bennis, UN political Adviser and expert on the Sahara issue, in an interview published by the Hespress website.