Speaking at the end of a special meeting, CORCAS chairman Khalihenna Ould Errachid said this proposal would be submitted to King Mohammed VI.           
 
    The two-day meeting discussed the autonomy project, announced by the monarch in the 2005 Throne speech to try to find a final political solution to the three-decade long dispute opposing the North African country to the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario". The latter has been claiming, since 1976, sovereignty over the former Spanish colony, which Morocco retrieved in 1975 under the Madrid Accords signed with Spain and Mauritania.
 
    CORCAS, which is composed of elected officials and NGO's working in the human rights and social fields, is dedicated to the economic and social development of Morocco’s southern provinces and to the safeguard of their cultural identity.