Ould Errachid added that "this new policy is to the inhabitants of the South, in order to participate in the design and implementation directly.

He explained that the plan to grant the southern provinces autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, is a first in the case of the Sahara, a step forward and at the level of the North African, Arab and African policies.

Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid said that "the new royal policy aims primarily at addressing all the problems that led to the founding of the Polisario Front, including social and economic marginalization and exclusion from political participation in the management of local affairs