Christian Cambon, president of the group of friendship between France's Senate and Morocco's House of Councillors (upper house), said on Monday that Paris supports the kingdom's efforts to reach a political solution to the Sahara issue.

Spain is calling for a "just, final and lasting" solution for the Sahara conflict, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Friday in Madrid.

 HM King Mohammed VI affirmed that the obduracy displayed by the enemies of our territorial integrity will make us all the more determined to press ahead with our efforts to expand democracy and promote development, stressing that citizenship rights cannot be perceived nor practised except within the framework of full respect for and commitment to the nation's unity and sovereignty.

The Caribbean states of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis and Saint Lucia decided to withdraw recognition of the so-called SADR, says on Monday a statement of the Foreign Ministry.

 HM King Mohammed VI addressed, on Friday, a speech to the nation on the eleventh anniversary of Throne Day.