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In its audition before the Foreign Affairs, National Defence and Islamic Affairs Committee pertaining to the First Chamber of the Moroccan Parliament, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation presented a comprehensive oral exposé on the evolution of the last informal negotiations of Armonk City, near New York, in the USA and denounced the permanent stand of the opposing party, with nothing new and bringing no alternative project, despite the allegations of the Polisario and Algerian propaganda.
The Minister reminded of the fundamentals of the Moroccan approach, characterized with rigorous conception and opened implementation, based on the international law, in the management of territory conflicts, and also on the legitimate aspiration of the concerned people- those living in the Southern provinces or those sequestered in Tindouf camps – to be able to get self-autonomy as part of the Unifier Nation and to enjoy the exclusive management of its own affairs. This is what the Moroccan internal autonomy project of the Moroccan Sahara region guarantees, beyond all expectations and according to all the applicable international standards.

The Moroccan autonomy initiative for the Moroccan Sahara is undoubtedly the « most precious and plausible » solution to solve the Sahara issue, consider the Spanish NGO officials, namely Yusuf Fernandez, the Secretary General of the Spanish Muslim Federation (FME) and Yonaida Selam, President of the cultural and social association Intercultura.
In fact, after the failure of the self-determination referendum option, given up by the United Nations, for its inapplicability on field, the Moroccan internal autonomy proposal for the Sahara has inevitably become the most credible and the most realistic option, as it meets the two disputing parties’ expectations: Moroccan Sovereignty over the territory and the autonomy of people living there or those who are excluded, as they are sequestered in Tindouf camps, in Algeria. It also creates a real dynamics in the negotiation process, initiated by the United Nations and the Security Council, under the patronage of the UN Secretary General and his personal Envoy to the Region.
Yet, one should notice the lack of progress of the formal and informal negotiation rounds, confirmed, once more, by Armonk talks, as the other party practices obstruction and politician bidding. “The Polisario, underlines Yusuf Fernandez of the FME, has made no attempt to move the stands closer and it still persists in its fiction of a Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Tindouf camps, in the Algerian territory, while benefiting from Algeria’s support” and from the international aid granted by the international community to the sequestered people of Tindouf. By doing so, it is about to loose, slowly but certainly, the diplomatic support of an increasing number of countries who withdraw their recognition of the SADR and the Polisario as well.

The dissident wing of the Polisario, Khat Echahid (Voice of the Martyr) denounces once again the course of action undertaken by Polisario leadership in pursuit of negotiations with Morocco, under the UNO leadership. An extremist and obscurantist line that extends the ordeal and agony of the sequestered populations in Tindouf in the Algerian South-West, enriches, at the detriment of the Sahrawi tribes and families of Lahmada camps, the Polisario leaders and serves the black intentions of Algiers governing persons.
Khat Echahid considers that it is time to end all this by changing the obsolete leadership of the Polisario and seriously negotiating with Morocco, based on the pertinent decisions and recommendations of the UNO and as part of the Moroccan Initiative to grant a wide autonomy to the Sahara territory.
Leaders of Khat Echahid movement, present in Tindouf camps or settling in the neighboring countries, denounce also mismanagement, corruption, trafficking and the misappropriation of the international aid, resold in the markets of the African Sahel countries while the life conditions of the Sahrawi populations retained in Tindouf camps are awful. Sahrawis live in camps within an intolerable climate of suspicion, fear and terror, under the custody militia of the Polisario and the eye of the Algerian military, without hope and without any future for disillusioned coming days.