France and Morocco have exceptional relations which transcend the cultural, historical and friendship ties between the two countries, French Interior Minister Manuel Vall said, recalling that HM King Mohammed VI was the first head of state to be received by French President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace.

Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alioune Badara Cissé reiterated his country's support to the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Sahara for a final resolution to a conflict that has lasted more than three decades, reported the Senegalese newspaper le Soleil in its Wednesday edition.

Tindouf camps in Algeria are one of the major recruitment areas of children and teenagers to make war and commit suicide, wrote Wednesday the Italian daily «il Folglio».

 Regionalization advocated by Morocco could eventually provide the framework for a settlement of the "thorny" Sahara issue, said an Italian member of the Council of Europe, returning from a mission in the Kingdom.

MEPs reaffirm, in a statement released on Thursday, their commitment to a "dispassionate and objective treatment of information" about the situation in the Sahara.