"By choosing to hold celebrations of its 12nd congress in a zone under Minurso control, the Polisario Front remains faithful to its strategy of systematic defiance to international legality", said the Malian newspaper in a long article entitled " Western Sahara: the Polisario Front defies international legality".

The newspaper recalled the position of the UN Secretary General, which drew the front’s attention in the past to the organization of this conference in Tifariti, by bringing hundreds of people and ensuring their supervision by the military, in civilian clothes for the occasion", constitute a violation of military agreement 'and' contribute to heightened tensions on the ground and can cause a deterioration of the situation along the defence wall”.

" Le Républicain" adds that "Polisario" and Algeria, its principal and traditional support, lacking inspiration and completely out of the current geopolitical fact, want to take advantage of this congress, by using it politically to claim representativeness of the Saharan population.

"But the reality on the ground has now completely changed. The Saharan population wants peace and Polisario represents only a limited and minority fraction of the population of the Sahara region," said the same source.

Quoted by the newspaper, the Ambassador of Morocco to Mali, Mr. Idriss Fadhil, said that the organization of the congress is intended to divert observers’ attention from the deplorable and miserable conditions of the Tindouf’s detainnes, in Algeria, due mainly to the embezzlement of humanitarian aid for political purposes.

The shipping of people, against their will, supervised by the military in civilian clothes, he added, "is a blatant manoeuvre, a serious violation and an obvious denial of basic human rights of these people for political purposes".