The Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted on Monday, without a vote, a draft resolution on the Sahara issue.

The Moroccan autonomy initiative is the only framework for the settlement of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, said Thursday in New York, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale.

The international community must put pressure on Algeria to allow Polisario engage seriously in negotiations to achieve a final settlement to the Sahara issue and thus end the suffering of Sahrawis sequestrated in Tindouf camps said Monday in New York, Lahcen Mahraoui, member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS).

HM King Mohammed VI stressed Friday that the "massive participation" of the southern provinces in the last elections is an "additional democratic proof of the Sahara inhabitants attachment to territorial integrity and political system of their country".

The European Union calls all parties to the Sahara issue to seek a negotiated settlement, said Vice-president of the European commission, Fedredica Mogherini.