US "Commentary Magazine" highlighted on Thursday the legitimacy of Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern provinces (the Sahara), while stressing the support of the international community to this plan.

The vast majority of the sequestered population in the camps of Tindouf, south-western Algeria, support Morocco's autonomy initiative for the Sahara and are in general disappointed by the failed promises of the polisario, said the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.

US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, described as "reasonable" Morocco's autonomy plan for the Sahara, under the Kingdom's sovereignty, US paper "The Hill" reported on Friday.

Moroccan foreign minister said Morocco, which is committed to building the Arab Maghreb Union and to Maghreb integration, is determined to reach a consensual settlement of the Sahara issue, within the framework of the autonomy Initiative put forward by the Kingdom.

French Ambassador to Rabat Bruno Joubert said, on Monday, that Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is an "important step forward" to settle this issue.