Mrs. Hajabouha Zubeir member of the Council, head of the women entrepreneurs in Laayoune and representing the "International Business & Professional Women" in Morocco, during a workshop organized within the framework of the Civil Society Forum of Durban II, highlighted the achievements of Moroccan women and their contribution in the service of social and economic development of the Kingdom, especially in the southern regions.

Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is the most pertinent and the most appropriate solution to the Sahara dispute, Mayor of the Italian city of Sorrento, Emilio Moretti, said on Saturday.

A majority of members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama, expressing concern over the rising threat from al-Qaeda and other terrorists in North Africa, and calling for strong US backing for Morocco's autonomy proposal to solve the Sahara dispute.

The political stand of the polisario regarding the Sahara issue should evolve following the example of Morocco, which has proposed "substantial autonomy" as a solution to this issue, Spokesman of the conservative Popular Party (PP) in the Spanish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission underlined Tuesday.

The Mauritanian Democratic Socialist Party (PDS) has denounced with "firmness and force" attempts by Polisario and Algeria to lead the region into an impasse and confrontation.