The abduction last Sunday of three European aid workers in Tindouf is a "strong signal" to the international community about the "urgency" to find a definitive solution to the Sahara issue, says U.S. NGO Teach the Children International, in a statement issued Wednesday night in Washington.

 The Acting Tunisian president Fouad Mebazaa, hoped a settlement for the Sahara issue to consolidate building the Maghreb.

The British Foreign Minister, William Hague, called on Monday, the parties to the Sahara conflict, to continue their involvement into the UN process to find a mutually acceptable political solution to this regional dispute.

The Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted on Monday without a vote, a draft resolution that reiterates the United Nations' support for the process of negotiations on the Sahara, calling upon "all the parties and the States of the region to cooperate fully with the UN Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy and with each other."

withdrawing its recognition of the so-called SADR, Kenya called on Thursday in New York for negotiations "without preconditions and in good faith," the only way "to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution."