Pitching tents by a group of citizens outside urban limits of Laayoune, to show what they consider "legitimate social claims," is part of the climate of freedom and democracy prevailing in this region, as in all other parts of the Kingdom, said sources close to local authorities.

The Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, held on Tuesday in Rabat, talks with a delegation of Argentine parliamentary assistants, visiting Morocco.

HM the King Mohammed VI said that the defence of the Moroccan Sahara remains the Kingdom's sacred cause and requires a full mobilization to foil the desperate schemes of the enemies of Morocco's territorial integrity.

The Spanish press reacted on the release by Polisario of the release of Mr. Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, that the Front had arrested last Sept. 21 on his way back to the Tindouf camps to defend the Moroccan initiative granting autonomy to the Sahara region as a final solution to this issue.

Algeria has "sacrificed" its ties with Morocco and the building of the Maghreb for the sake "of pursuing a hegemonic strategy and creating instability" in the region, said Vice-President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khadad El Moussaoui, on Wednesday in the UN headquarters in New York.