“Polisario involvement in abduction acts reveals to the world the true face" of the separatist group which appears to be a "liberation movement," said Jeremy Keenan Thursday in London, who is an international expert of the Sahel and North Africa.

The EU-Morocco Friendship Group at the European Parliament (EP) "supports" the decision by the Kingdom to withdraw confidence in the personal envoy of UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, said Wednesday in Brussels, its president Gilles Pargneaux.

The Moroccan autonomy initiative is a suitable framework for any discussion on natural resource management in the Sahara, stressed Monday in Geneva several experts at an international seminar on the "management of natural resources under autonomy statutes" .

The last thing Africa needs is another unviable state, which would be a hotbed of terrorist and criminal networks, as evidenced by the serious turn of the Malian crisis and proved collusion between elements of the Polisario and the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), warned participants at a conference in Washington.

 The withdrawal by Morocco of its confidence in the UN personal envoy, Christopher Ross, is "a sovereign decision," said the London-based electronic newspaper Elaph.