Spokesperson for the United Nations, Michele Montas said the UNSG Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Peter van Walsum has the capacity as UN facilitator, to present suggestions to get the 32-year-old Sahara issue out of the current impasse.

  Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sahara, Peter Van Walsum, said on Monday, calling on the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to recommend to the parties involved in the dispute to resume negotiations and take into account the political and international reality.

"Everyone is more than ever convinced that it is impossible to reach a final settlement of the Sahara issue without Algeria's support to the ongoing negotiations process," the Minister of Interior said on Saturday.
 

Visiting French Prime minister François Fillon reiterated, here Thursday, France's support to the Moroccan proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces -the Sahara.

The visit of Mr. Jose Montilla, the President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, and his meeting with Mr. Khalihenna Oueld Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory for Saharan Affairs has generated a lot of comments and a significant coverage by the Spanish and Catalan press and media.