The Parliamentary Morocco-Italian Friendship Group, "Friends of Morocco", said Thursday it positively welcomed the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara. 

Morocco's initiative to grant broad autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is "one of a kind," as it offers a wide scope of autonomy to the local population, visiting chairman of the Foreign Affairs commission, Malian expatriates and African integration at the National Assembly of Mali, Amadou Bouaré, said here Wednesday.

The autonomy initiative in the Southern provinces of Morocco constitutes   “the only alternative which will bring a fitting solution to an artificial regional dispute” asserted, on Monday at Rabat  the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, Malian who live abroad, and the African integration, in the Malian national assembly, Mr Amado Bouare.

the Moroccan autonomy plan which takes place in the way of democratic evolution by His Majesty Mohamed VI, answers the democratic requirements of the European charter of the regional autonomy, asserted Saturday in Lyon ( France), jean-Christopher Robert, lecturer in law history at Perpignan university via Domitia.

Morocco's stance on the Sahara issue has been boosted by the increasing international support for the Kingdom's autonomy proposal, said Sudanese paper "Al Rai Al'am".