The Moroccan proposal to grant autonomy to the southern provinces, the Sahara, reflects Morocco's clear and sincere commitment to find a solution to the Sahara issue, said on Saturday in Kortrijk (north-west Belgium) a member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS).

A large majority of the southern populations is convinced that the Moroccan proposal to grant a broad autonomy to the southern provinces is the only solution to settle the Sahara issue, member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Moulay Ahmed Mghizlat, said on Tuesday.

The Moroccan law, which lays down not only rights and guarantees, but also duties and responsibilities, "applies and will apply to the Moroccan Sahara in accordance with the international practice," Moroccan Foreign minister Taïb Fassi Fihri said in a letter to the UN Secretary General.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki reiterated his country's support for the Moroccan initiative to grant substantial autonomy to the southern provinces, a statement of the Foreign ministry said.

His Majesty King Mohammed VI has asserted that the southern provinces will be among the first beneficiaries of the advanced regionalization which translates a resolute option for the renewal and the modernisation of he state’s structures and for the consolidation of the  integrated development.