The president of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed force committee, who met a Moroccan-French friendship group delegation led by its president Abdelkebir Berkia, was reacting to the recent speech by Moroccan King Mohammed VI in which he proposed a larger autonomy for the Sahara.
The former Spanish colony was retrievd by Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid Accords.
Morocco is presenting to the United Nations a project on autonomy for these provinces, object of a dispute since the mid-seventies between the North African kingdom and the Algeria-backed separatist movement "Polisario."
Vinçon described as "wise and clear" the monarch's speech, adding that "internal autonomy is a gesture of conciliation and reconciliation."
Late April, a report submitted by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on the Sahara conflict discarded definitely former US Secretary of State James Baker's Peace Plan for the Sahara and rejected any imposed solution.
The report urges for direct negotiations between all parties as the sole means to break the deadlock and to find a consensus-based political solution to the dispute, as was called for by Morocco.
"We highly appreciate," king Mohammed VI and Moroccan people efforts to "treat both internal and regional positions," he went on.
Several French senior officials hailed the Moroccan proposal for larger autonomy, including former Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, French Socialist party Secretary general in charge of international relations, Maurice Braud, and Jean-Claude Gaudin, deputy president of the French Senate.