Moroccan Foreign minister, Mohamed Benaissa, met, here Wednesday, his Brazilian peer, Celso Amorim, to explain Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces, the Sahara.
During this meeting, Benaissa conveyed a message from king Mohammed VI to Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about the Moroccan autonomy plan, which is due to be presented next April to the United Nations security Council.
The visit of Benaissa, who had also met Brazilian vice-president José Alencar and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Arinaldo Chinaglia, is part of Morocco's diplomatic initiatives in several capitals to drum up support to this plan which would end the conflict in the North African region where the Polisario separatists, backed by Morocco's eastern neighbor Algeria, claim independence of the former Spanish colony retrieved by the kingdom in 1975 under the Madrid Accord.