The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Saad El Dine Otmani, discussed during an interview Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York, a series of issues relating particularly to the national cause and the latest on regional and international developments.

Tindouf camps have become, under Polisario influence, a haven for criminal activity of all kinds based on growing links between strong leaders of the separatists and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM ), according to a report released by the NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center, based in Norfolk in the U.S. State of Virginia.

 Mr. Alioune Badra Cisse: "Without Morocco, the African Union is not complete"

 The Senegalese Foreign Minister, Mr. Alioune Badara Cissé, reiterated Monday in Rabat, the clear position of his country in favor of a "Moroccan Sahara" and "the undisputed Moroccan sovereignty" over its southern provinces.

The Moroccan southern provinces are "an integral part of the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco", said Saturday in Marrakesh the Comorian Minister of External Relations and Cooperation in charge of the Arab world, Mohamed Bakri Abdoulfatah Sharif.

 The autonomy plan presented by Morocco to settle the Sahara issue continues to attract an international diplomatic support, said the prestigious British think-tank the Economist Intelligence Unit.