The visit of a delegation of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) in the region of Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra was crowned by the signing Saturday of a "joint declaration" focusing on the linkages of friendship and cooperation between the Pole of the Canary Islands and the southern provinces".

All countries know today that the Sahara is a Moroccan-Algerian conflict for which they called for a consensual solution," said Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi.

A member of a group of Polisario dissidents, known as "Polisario-Khatt Achahid" (line of the martyr), was arrested in Tindouf (southwestern Algeria) by the polisario's militias, Sahrawi activists in Spain said on Wednesday.

 Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri said on Tuesday that no settlement of the Sahara issue is possible outside of a regional, consensual, and political solution in the strict respect for Morocco's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco is seeking a solution to the Sahara dispute based on common ground rather than conflict, former assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asia affairs, Frederick Vreeland, underlined on Sunday.