The United States voiced hope that the Algerian-backed separatist movement, Polisario, will engage in discussions on the basis of the Moroccan proposal to grant substantial autonomy to the former Spanish colony, the Sahara, describing it as a realistic starting point likely to lead to a solution to this conflict.

The Chairman of the Royal Council for Sahara Affairs (CORCAS), Khalihenna Ould Errachid said, here Wednesday, that the Algerian-backed Polisario separatists have only two choices: to accept Morocco's autonomy proposal for the Sahara, or to stay in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria.

Algeria and Polisario are called to show good faith and seriousness required for the success of the third round of negotiations on the Sahara, said the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid.

  A senior Moroccan delegation will participate, on January 7-9 in Manhasset (New York outskirts), in the third round of these negotiations aiming to reach a final and mutually acceptable political solution to the Sahara dispute, opposing Morocco to the Algerian-backed separatist movement the Polisario.

The Tan Tan inhabitants who learn by rote hassani poetry, make no secret of their thirst for more metric forms. some of them believe it is the true soul of the Sahara inhabitant.