Taib Fassi Fihri added that the talks were also an opportunity to demonstrate the purpose, justness and full conformity of this initiative with the international legality, as well as with the spirit and the letter of the UN Security Council resolutions.
    "Besides, we responded to some observations and questions on it," Fassi Fihri told the press at the end of the talks.
    The minister added that "like the previous rounds, held in Manhasset, the Moroccan delegation reiterated its political, legal and operational position with regard to the polisario’s proposal and showed again that it absolutely brings nothing new regarding the possibilities and mechanisms to lead to a final solution, because it adopts again initial plans which proved unfeasible.”
    “Morocco is willing to continue these talks on the basis of the indications clearly defined in the UN Security Council resolutions, especially those which emphasize the primacy of the Moroccan autonomy initiative and call for substantive negotiations that take into account the serious and credible efforts made by Morocco since 2006 based on realism and the spirit of compromise,” Fassi Fihri said.
    The second informal meeting took place following four rounds of negotiations, held in Manhasset in 2007 and 2008, under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General’s former Personal Envoy Peter Van Walsum.
    The Security Council resolutions call on all the parties to enter into a more substantive phase of negotiations, taking into account the efforts made by the Kingdom of Morocco since 2006, and to show realism and a spirit of compromise in order  to reach a political and final solution to the regional dispute on the Moroccan Sahara.
    In this regard, the Moroccan delegation to the New York meeting expressed willingness to negotiate a realistic and feasible solution on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy Initiative, whose primacy was explicitly underlined by the Security Council.
    The delegation emphasized the pertinence of this initiative, recalled the democratic approach which governed its elaboration, spelt out its substantive content, showed its conformity with the international legality and laid out its regional scope.
    Like in the other meetings, Morocco showed the out-dated reference of the so-called proposal of the other parties, its obsolete content and its biased interpretation of the principle of self-determination.
    Highlighting the inapplicability of the referendum with extreme options, the Moroccan delegation showed that the recourse to the referendum is rare in the UN practice, with most situations resolved through negotiations between the parties.