The statement was made by head of the Middle East and North Africa department at the Belgian Foreign Ministry, Christian Monnoyer at the end of a meeting Monday with a Moroccan delegation of senior officials. The delegation's visit to Belgium is part of a tour to permanent and non permanent member countries of the UN Security Council, and to other countries to explain the autonomy plan, which Morocco presents as a "credible and realistic" perspective abiding by international legality to solve the dispute over the former Spanish colony.

    The Polisario Front, backed by Morocco's eastern neighbor, Algeria claims the independence of the territory that was ceded by Spain to Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid Accords.

    “We shall consider the proposal with much attention as Belgium is (non permanent) member of the Security Council,” Monnoyer said.

     The delegation is composed of Interior Minister, Chakib Benmoussa, Deputy Foreign Minister, Taieb Fassi Fihri, Deputy Interior Minister, Fouad Ali Al Himma, and head of Morocco’s Intelligence, Yassine Mansour.

    The delegation earlier met with Belgium Premier, Guy Verhofstadt, Foreign Minister, Karel De Gucht, as well as with several MPs.

    Several delegations have been shuttling between world capitals to drum up support for the plan that Morocco is expected to submit in its final version to the Security Council by the end of April.