Morocco insisted that it will not accept, under any circumstances, that the status quo be modified in the Tifariti zone, which has been, since the 1991 UN-brokered ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario, free from any civil or military presence.

Mauritanian People's Rally, reiterated on Tuesday its and full support to the Moroccan initiative to grant the Sahara considerable autonomy within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty.

 Polisario separatists and their supporters in Algeria have only one objective: that of perpetuating the talk process on the future of the Sahara, UN Secretary General personal envoy to the Sahara, Peter van Walsum said.

The President of the Canary Islands government, Mr. Paulino Rivero (Canary Coalition), met Wednesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Presidency in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with members of the delegation from the Moroccan southern provinces, currently visiting the Spanish archipelago.

All Sahrawi Moroccans detained in the Tindouf camps aspire to the liberation day when they can return to the Motherland, said Ahmed Ould Mohamed Ould Mbarek Hsina, a Moroccan Sahrawi who joined the Kingdom last Sunday.