A majority of members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama, expressing concern over the rising threat from al-Qaeda and other terrorists in North Africa, and calling for strong US backing for Morocco's autonomy proposal to solve the Sahara dispute.

The political stand of the polisario regarding the Sahara issue should evolve following the example of Morocco, which has proposed "substantial autonomy" as a solution to this issue, Spokesman of the conservative Popular Party (PP) in the Spanish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission underlined Tuesday.

The Mauritanian Democratic Socialist Party (PDS) has denounced with "firmness and force" attempts by Polisario and Algeria to lead the region into an impasse and confrontation.

Morocco decided to refer Friday to the United Nations Security Council president to denounce a new unacceptable act perpetrated by the other parties to the Sahara issue in serious violation of the UN-brokered ceasefire established since 1991, Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, said on Friday.