The operation of family visit exchange, conducted by the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), between the camps in Tindouf in southern Algeria and southern provinces of the kingdom, continued Friday through the organization of the 18th trip for the year 2009, to and from the province of Smara. 

 Azerbaijan has voiced support for the Moroccan proposal to grant broad autonomy to its southern provinces, which remains "the only solution to settle out definitively this dispute" over this territory, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Morocco, Saber Aghabayouv said.

The Parliamentary Morocco-Italian Friendship Group, "Friends of Morocco", said Thursday it positively welcomed the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara. 

Morocco's initiative to grant broad autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is "one of a kind," as it offers a wide scope of autonomy to the local population, visiting chairman of the Foreign Affairs commission, Malian expatriates and African integration at the National Assembly of Mali, Amadou Bouaré, said here Wednesday.

The autonomy initiative in the Southern provinces of Morocco constitutes   “the only alternative which will bring a fitting solution to an artificial regional dispute” asserted, on Monday at Rabat  the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, Malian who live abroad, and the African integration, in the Malian national assembly, Mr Amado Bouare.