US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, on Wednesday in Washington, that Morocco's plan to grant broad autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is a "serious, realistic and credible" proposal.

"The US policy towards the Sahara issue has remained constant from administration to administration, starting with the Clinton administration and continuing with the Bush administration and up to the present in the Obama administration," she noted.

"We have already expressed our conviction that the Moroccan autonomy plan is a serious realistic and credible proposal, and an approach to satisfy the aspirations" of the population concerned "in managing their own affairs in peace and dignity," she said at a press conference with her Moroccan counterpart Taieb Fassi Fihri.

Clinton also said that the US "strongly supports" the role of the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy, Christopher Ross, as well as the United Nations in their efforts to find a settlement to the Sahara conflict.

Source: MAP
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