Speaker of Sao Tome and Principe's National Assembly, Delfim Santiago Das Neves reiterated his country's position in favor of Morocco's territorial integrity.

The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica welcomed the decision of the United States to recognize the sovereignty of the Kingdom over the entire Moroccan Sahara region and to open a U.S. Consulate in Dakhla.

The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) stressed on Wednesday that the Polisario must understand "what is possible and what is impossible" to reach a solution to the Sahara issue.

The main support of the separatists in the European Parliament, which they called the "Western Sahara Intergroup" has just suffered a serious setback on Tuesday with the resignation of its president, Joachim Schuster, protesting against the violation of the ceasefire by the Polisario.

The opening on Monday of a consulate general of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Laâyoune, capital of the Moroccan Sahara, constitutes "a historic step" in the centuries-old relations between the two countries, said Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.