The members of France's National Assembly delegation hailed, on Thursday in Laayoune (Morocco's South), the process of development that the Moroccan southern provinces enjoy as well as the climate of stability and security prevailing in the region.

The polisario's "breaking down" drives the Tindouf camps' youths, despoiled of their rights, to be recruits for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and trafficking networks of all kinds, said an analysis by the online website "Atlantic-Community.Org", an independent think tank that focuses on transatlantic strategic challenges.

The UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy Christopher Ross announced, on Sunday at the end of the fifth informal talks on the Sahara, that the parties will meet next March for another round to develop "concrete ideas".

Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said, on Thursday, that there are other alternatives to settling the Sahara conflict rather than referendum.

The network of international African experts sent, on Monday from Dakar, a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to advocate the relevance of the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara and call for a serious commitment to negotiations in order to reach a political solution to the long-standing conflict.