The United Kingdom reaffirmed before the United Nations Security Council its support for the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative as "the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis" for achieving a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

Here follows a statement by the Royal Office:

The United States has welcomed the "historic" adoption of Security Council Resolution 2797 on Moroccan Sahara, reaffirming that Morocco's Autonomy Initiative is "the only basis" for achieving a just and lasting solution to this regional dispute.

France reiterated before the UN Security Council that "the present and the future of the Sahara lie within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty", affirming that Paris' support to the autonomy Initiative proposed by Morocco in 2007 is "clear and steadfast".

UN Security Council Resolution 2797, which consolidates the autonomy plan as the only basis for resolving the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, represents a historic turning point for the Kingdom, according to the President of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Regional Council, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid.