Morocco will participate in the third informal meeting on the Sahara, due in New York outskirts on November 7-9, building on a negotiations approach which confirms the spirit of consensus, realism and the autonomy plan's democratic dimensions, Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said on Thursday in Rabat.

Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud "has remained confined to the remote" area of Mhiriz, although the polisario announced his release on October 6, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Wednesday.

By endorsing the Moroccan autonomy proposal in the southern provinces, a "just" solution able to put an end to the Sahara conflict, tens of thousands of Sahrawi refuse thus to undergo the scare tactics advocated by Polisario, wrote New York Post on Tuesday.

The Spanish analyst and expert of the Sahara issue, Chema Gil, highlighted the " openly unbalanced" treatment by the media in his country to the Sahara conflict.

The autonomy plan submitted by Morocco to settle, under the Moroccan sovereignty, the Sahara issue is a "laudable initiative which serves integration in the Maghreb region," said on Sunday Mayor of Trowbridge, Clive Blackmore.