The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, met Monday in Rabat with the President of The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Mr. Goran Lennmarker.

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.

Visiting speaker of the Malian parliament, Dioncounda Traoré, on Friday, deemed, "serious and credible" Morocco's autonomy proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces, the Sahara.

President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, José Montilla, stressed, on Thursday, that Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces, the Sahara, is a "starting point" towards solving the Sahara issue.