The French Development Agency (AFD) group is planning significant investments worth around 150 million euros in the southern provinces of the Kingdom, announced the Agency's CEO, Rémy Rioux, on Saturday in Laayoune.

A number of experts emphasized last Monday, during a national symposium held at the House of Councillors on "The Moroccan Parliament and the Moroccan Sahara Issue: Towards Effective Parallel Diplomacy and Effective Institutional Advocacy," that the development dynamics in the southern regions are a clear example of the relevance of the Kingdom's orientations, particularly the new development model for these regions.

A Moroccan delegation of legal experts participated in the 29th World Law Congress, held from May 4 to 6 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, under the theme "New Generations and the Rule of Law: Shaping the Future." They highlighted the validity of the autonomy plan as a realistic and lasting solution to the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.

Moroccan diplomacy regarding the Sahara issue has adopted, in recent years, a proactive approach grounded in established historical legitimacy, solid legal arguments, and ambitious development projects, said on Monday in Rabat, the Speaker of the House of Councillors, Mohamed Ould Errachid.

The International Forum of Young Socialist and Social Democratic Parliamentarians, whose third edition was held on Friday and Saturday in Marrakech, expressed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and the autonomy initiative as “the only basis for a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political situation” to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.