The 4th round Negotiations over the Sahara to resume Sunday, in Manhasset, near New York, as agreed at the end of the last meeting held from January 7-9.
The Moroccan government on Thursday called on the other parties, in particular Algeria, to participate positively in the upcoming UN-led talks on the Sahara dispute on the basis of Morocco's initiative to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces.
Nearly one hundred Sahrawis have returned, during the last twenty four hours, to the Motherland from the Tindouf camps in Algeria, three groups consisting of several persons that took part in Gjijimat congress, held last December in Tifariti region, in the Moroccan Sahara.
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon said participants in the third round of Manhasset negotiations on the Sahara (January 7-9) concurred on the need for "a more intensive and substantive phase of negotiations."