After French President, Jacques Chirac hailed it on Monday as "constructive," the Speaker of the Polish parliament, Marek Jurek said, here on Thursday, this project was an "interesting initiative," adding that his country "follows it with much respect and interest."
The dispute over the Sahara erupted in the mid-Seventies when the Polisario separatists laid claims to Morocco's Southern Provinces, a territory the north African country had retrieved from Spanish rule under the Madrid Accords signed with Mauritania and Spain.
"The autonomy project is a sign of the genuine democracy that already exists in Morocco and which makes it possible to solve conflicts through dialog and peaceful means," the Polish official said at the end of a meeting with the chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahara Issues (CORCAS), Khalihenna Ould Errachid.