Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabriela Sommerfeld, expressed on Thursday in New York her country’s determination to strengthen its cooperation with Morocco in strategic areas, including trade and security.

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, affirmed last Wednesday in New York that the autonomy initiative proposed by Morocco "paves the way" toward resolving the regional dispute over the Sahara.

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced that, following Washington's recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over its Sahara, the US government has decided to encourage American investment in the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom.

TMicronesia expressed, on Wednesday in New York, its full support to Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, the Kingdom’s sovereignty over its Southern Provinces and the Moroccan Autonomy Plan.

Polisario separatist group is a “terrorist organization” that destabilizes global peace and security, said on Tuesday U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson, recalling having introduced bipartisan legislation to the U.S. Congress to identify the armed group as a foreign terrorist organization.