Niger's assembly Speaker, Mahamane Ousmane said wisdom recommends that the international community supports the autonomy proposal, which Morocco is devising to put an end to the dispute over the Sahara that erupted in the mid-Seventies when the Polisario separatists laid claims to Morocco's Southern Provinces, a territory the north African country had retrieved from Spanish rule under the Madrid Accords signed with Mauritania and Spain.
 
    The Moroccan proposal meets regional specificities, and is line with the international standards of decentralization, underlined Ousmane at a meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abdelwahed Radi.
 
    Echoing Ousmane, Liberian Senate Speaker, Isaac Wehyee Nyeanabo said at the end of another meeting with Moroccan Speaker that Liberia will spare no efforts to help the autonomy project be a success.
 
    This project is meant to solve this dispute, which “has so long lasted,” while its settlement is “essential for peace in the sub-region and the African continent”.
 
    During these meetings, Radi informed his counterparts of the latest developments of the Sahara issue and Morocco’s efforts to settle this dispute.