The autonomy plan proposed by Morocco for its southern provinces is the "only viable solution" for a final settlement of the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, said a large group of participants in a seminar held Saturday in Dar es Salaam.

The flagrant human rights violations committed by the polisario against the detained populations in Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria), were heavily denounced on Wednesday in New York, before the United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee.

The Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop reiterated, Monday in Rabat, the constant position of his country in favor of a just and lasting political solution, under the auspices of the UN, to the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara question.

In his report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara issue, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres confirmed that "the polisario" has no status at the United Nations.

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has strongly denounced, in his report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara issue, the drastic and unacceptable restrictions imposed on MINURSO by the "polisario", since its unilateral withdrawal from the cease-fire.