HM King Mohammed VI addressed a speech to the 29th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), which opened Monday in Addis Ababa.

Here follows the full text of the speech:

Morocco participated in the 34th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), which opened last Tuesday in Addis Ababa, in preparation for the 29th Summit of Heads of State and Government to take place on 3 and 4 July at the headquarters of the African Union (AU).

The June session of the UN Decolonization Committee concluded on Friday its works with a bitter double failure of its president Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Ramirez and Algeria.

The President of the Senate of Saint Lucia, Andy G. Daniel, expressed his support for Morocco's proposal to grant autonomy to the southern provinces of Morocco in the framework of sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity of the Kingdom.

The autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007 to settle the artificial dispute around the Moroccan Sahara is the "only positive initiative" to achieve the political settlement expected by the United Nations, stressed Tuesday in New York, Ambassador of Grenada to the UN, Keisha McGuire.