The autonomy plan for of the southern provinces presented by Morocco aims to "promote the emergence of a compromise", reiterated the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mr. Taib Fassi-Fihri, regretting that despite efforts of the Kingdom, described as "credible and serious" by the international community and the Security Council, Algeria and the Polisario "have never expressed" the desire for openness and realism. "

The United States urged the parties involved in the Sahara issue to "continue to negotiate without preconditions and in good faith with a spirit of realism and compromise toward a just, lasting and mutually-acceptable political solution" of the Sahara issue, hailing the Secretary-General's announcement of Ambassador Christopher Ross as his Personal Envoy to the Sahara.

US diplomat, Christopher Ross has been appointed as the personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Sahara, the UNSG spokesperson, Michele Montas announced on Wednesday.

Sheikhs and notables of Sahrawi tribes have complained in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the exploitation of children by the Polisario for political purposes.

NGO, the "International Federation for Autonomy in the Sahara" (FIAS) on Tuesday voiced amazement at the "biased and subjective" nature of the latest report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on human rights in Morocco's Southern provinces and in the Tindouf camps in South-Western Algeria.