Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi held talks Tuesday at United Nations headquarters in New York with King Mswati III of Swaziland, including bilateral relations and latest developments in the Sahara issue.

Ambassador of Germany to Morocco, Ulf-Dieter Klemm, described as a "sound approach" the Moroccan initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara.

Former French Foreign Minister, Hubert Védrine, highlighted the "important" statement made, last April before the Security Council, by the former UN envoy for the Sahara Peter Van Walsum, which deemed that "the independence of the Western Sahara is not a realistic option."

The initiative of autonomy proposed by Morocco is "the only solution to the Sahara conflict that undermines Maghreb integration," said the President of the Center for strategic studies (OEG), Mr. Charles Saint-Prot.

Several Members of the French parliament voiced their support for Morocco's proposal to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, part of the continuous support expressed to the Moroccan plan in France and on the international scene.