Newly-elected Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon said, here Tuesday, that the Baker (peace) Plan, devised by the former US Secretary of State and former UNSG envoy to the Moroccan Sahara, "did not offer a significant process" to solve the three-decade long conflict between Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists.

Senegal has called on the African Union (AU) to contribute to the search of a "lasting solution" to the Sahara dispute opposing Morocco to the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" .

 Senegalese State minister and Foreign minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio urged, here Tuesday, the 8th African Union Summit to examine the Moroccan proposal to grant a large autonomy to its southern provinces.

The construction of a multidisciplinary faculty in the southern provinces will be launched during 2008, announced Tuesday in Laayoune, the Minister of National Education, Higher Education, Manager Training and Scientific Research, Mr. Habib El Malki.