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At the end of a rich and fruitful meeting between the President of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), Mustapha Mansouri and the President of the Catalan Popular Party (CPP), Alicia Sanchez Camacho, the latter has declared that the Moroccan initiative concerning the Western Sahara autonomy shall be taken into consideration and serve as a negotiation basis, as it offers a serious and credible prospect to the solution of the Western Sahara conflict. “we have to find, she specified, an equilibrium during the search process for a solution to the Sahara issue and the Moroccan autonomy proposal shall be taken into account to reach a fair and peaceful solution to this issue”.
Thus, the Catalan Popular Party joins the advanced position of Morocco, during the negotiations process of Manhasset in the USA consisting of an ambitious and coherent autonomy plan, giving to the elected local authority and to the related elected institutions wide prerogatives in all the fields that fall within their competences and throughout the territory. Legal instruments and institutional devices in mediation and arbitration have been set forth in cases of interests’ conflict and legal or statutory interpretation among regional institutions and national institutions.

The recent news around the Moroccan Sahara have taken a shape that calls any observer. The abounding part of the news, their intersecting as well as their contradictory interpretation incline to a necessary vigilance, for fear of slips-ups. The Aminatou Haidar issue, plotted by the Algerian government and the Polisario is like a rude machinery with many goals: to denigrate Morocco at a moment where the Advanced Status with the European Union is on the last straight line; to poison the Moroccan- Spanish relations by spreading malicious gossips and disinformation; finally to torpedo the UN negotiation process in the Sahara.
The chosen timing is not fortuitous. Worried about the wide positive echoes that the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in April 2007 continues to collect, determined also to fight it since the first one, the Algerian government thus starts crossfire. It uses the human rights issue at all levels in order to divert the international opinion from the implementation of a negotiated solution, focusing it on the other hand on fabricated problems. By encouraging a group of the Polisario guerilla sympathizers, domiciliated in Laayoune, to protest, it has succeeded to make of them human rights protesters becoming victims of human rights violations, while they have deliberately and unwisely infringed the law. At the 4th UN Committee, the Algerian delegate and his sidekicks have not stopped making pressure, before and during votes, on the other present delegates to falsify resolutions, and to divert any text project in line with the recommendations of the Security Council about the Sahara.

During the ministerial visit to Dakhla and within Oued Eddahab-Lagouira region, on October 27th, 2009, the Minister of the Interior Chakib Benmoussa has reaffirmed the importance that these provinces have in the national pattern of the sustainable development.
In fact, the stability and development in the Southern provinces constitute one of the main priorities of Morocco, taking into consideration the geographic, strategic and security imperatives, as well as the economic and social stakes. Consequently, the ministerial visit aimed at enquiring in situ about the general political situation of the region and about the inhabitants’ life conditions and their economic, social and cultural expectations. A meeting with MPs and the local elected representatives had taken place in order to discuss loudly the problems of the region and the specific expectations of its inhabitants. Problems linked to education, health, housing and work. The heads of the tribes (Shiouks) have insisted on reminding of their indefectible attachment to the Alaoui throne and their love for their motherland.

After having many times expelled journalists as well as former prisoners of the Polisario Front from Algiers airport, a curious “parallelism of forms” has been set up by the Algerian State while convincing a pro-Prolisario activist residing in Morocco to refuse to comply with the obligatory procedures during her arrival to the International Hassan 1st  airport in Laayoune. In fact, Aminatou Haïdar, being since yesterday in the international area within the airport, has refused to tell her nationality  as well as her country of destination, to the officer in charge of controlling  passports and applying related procedures. According to the international law in force, the representatives of the Moroccan State have thus  refused  Mrs Haïdar ‘s entry to  a territory, which according to her ...does not exist.
The pro-polisario activist, who has provoked many times  the Moroccan authorities has, moreover, tried to shoot secretly  through the foreign journalists that were accompanying her, the control in the borders.

Within its constant and sustainable effort to expand the economic tissue of the Saharan provinces, Morocco has allocated the amount of 1,2 billion dollars of , direct and indirect,  investments, relating to the basic infrastructure and the economic and social activities generating incomes for the people of the Saharan provinces, of the big Moroccan South. Hence, the economic, urban, cultural and social growth of the Saharan cities has become a concrete reality seen, touched and taken part in by everybody. Saharan cities are endowed with strong and performing infrastructure in terms of urban standard, ports and airports, pavements, roads and bridges, schools, colleges, high schools and training centers, dispensaries, hospitals and private hospitals, stadiums, fields and sport rooms, show and hobbies rooms, etc. Indeed, Southern cities enjoy the same conditions as their North homologues. This enormous effort made, within the framework of the South provinces development Agency, exceeds by far what Spain, the occupying power, has invested since 1884.
We are beyond the initial vision of the Sahara of 1975, seen, felt and lived, by the nomad people as well as by those who have chosen to live their as a wide infinite range of   desert, intersected of ill-assorted and badly equipped agglomerations and of water points spread along the Saharan roads taken by the dromedaries and camels.