Taib Fassi Fihri said, in an interview published on Saturday by the Qatari daily "Al Watan", the Kingdom is ready to continue negotiations to arrive at a final, lasting settlement of this issue.
    He recalled that Morocco’s position was spelt out to the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Christopher Ross, during his latest visit to the Kingdom, adding that the Moroccan autonomy Initiative is on the negotiating table. However, he went on, "we cannot sit by."
    Fassi Fihri noted, in this regard, the installation by HM the King of the advisory committee on regionalisation to prepare a Moroccan regionalization project, adding that the advanced regionalization attests to a will to put the country on the track of development in terms of territorial and local governance.
    The minister deplored the fact that Algeria and polisario did not respond favourably to the resolution 1871 and other UN Security Council resolutions that called on the parties to the conflict to show realism and a spirit of compromise and to cooperate towards a negotiated settlement of this conflict, “which means Morocco and Algeria must examine, directly and bilaterally, the issue of the Moroccan Sahara.”
    The other parties refuse to cooperate and have opted for the status quo, and Algeria did not help and did not take part in the negotiations with willingness as urged by the UN, he deplored.