The Commission for External Relations and Defence at the Belgian Senate rejected, on Tuesday in Brussels, a resolution proposal hostile to the Moroccanity of the Sahara presented by the Flemish nationalist party N-VA (opposition).

Spain hopes that a “just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution” to the Sahara issue will be achieved, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia Margallo said.

France draws attention to the situation of human rights in the camps of Tindouf, in the Algerian territory, which must “be improved” and calls for conducting a census of the camps’ populations, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said.

The Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamadou Tangara reiterated Tuesday in Rabat, his country’s position supporting the Moroccaness of the Sahara, noting that this position "does not suffer from any ambiguity."

Mali "has distanced itself" with Polisario, accusing it of "using its territory for kidnapping and drug trafficking, suspecting Sahrawis of complicity with the Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb," reports on Tuesday, Agence France Presse (AFP).