The former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, David Welch, reiterated that the initiative of autonomy in the southern provinces is the "most probable" solution for the settlement of the Sahara issue.

President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. M. Khalihenna Ould Errachid said that Morocco, like the international community insists on the need for the next round of negotiations on the Sahara, to be a “serious and deep” step in order to reach final settlement of this issue, which can only be autonomy, as unique option." 

Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, underlined, here Tuesday, the need to reach a "reasonable" agreement on the Sahara issue under the aegis of the UN, calling on the parties concerned to "show flexibility."

Dr Karl Addicks, member of the Bundestag (German parliament) called Sharaouis who live in Tindouf camps and Polisario front to leave these camps and go back to the southern provinces of  the Kingdom of Morocco, within the framework of a substantial autonomy proposed by Morocco

The mayor of Las Palmas (canary islands) Mr Jeronimo Saavedra Acevedo , underlined on Thursday in Rabat , that the Polisario and Algeria have to show a proof of “realism» in relation with the Sahara issue, taking into consideration the autonomy as “ an appropriate solution” for the settlement of this issue.