The Foreign Office minister in charge of Middle East and North Africa, Mr Ivan Lewis, said Tuesday in Casablanca, that his country welcomes the Moroccan autonomy initiative in the Sahara, and supports the efforts made by the envoy of the Secretary General of the UN in charge of the Sahara issue.

The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, here on Monday, that there is no change in the United States' position over Morocco's autonomy initiative for the Sahara.

The debate caravan which will be held from November 6 to December 25 in different cities of the Kingdom around autonomy in the Moroccan Sahara, aims to broaden the debate between the various components of society on the goals of this innovative, announced Wednesday night in Casablanca.

Morocco endeavours to bring about all the conditions of stability and development in its southern provinces, said, on Tuesday in the southern city of Dakhla, Morocco's Minister of the Interior.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Rachid, chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received on Monday at the Council’s headquarters, an official delegation from Paraguay chaired by Mr. Hector Ricardo Lacognata, Minister of External Relations.