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Abu Dhabi, May 27 - The royal proposal to grant autonomy to the southern provinces within Moroccan sovereignty represents "hope for Sahrawis whose suffering has long lasted in Tindouf camps" (south-east Algeria), underlined Bahraini writer, Mohamed Sayad.
The royal initiative is a historical opportunity that should be grabbed because "it constitutes an adequate platform to settle the Sahara issue and a hope for the Sahrawis whose suffering has long lasted in Tindouf camps, affirmed the writer in an article published Saturday by the UAE Arabic-speaking daily "Al-Khaleej."

Sayad also underlined that "the separatist objectives of the "Polisario" prove to be unworkable considering the international disengagement," noting that the party, which would chose to continue supporting Polisario, would do so for "particular reasons and would wait for something in return."

He concluded that the world, which lives on the pace of political and economic coalitions, does not offer space for small entities, which proves the inadmissibility of the separatist objectives.

In a speech addressed to the nation in March from Laâyoune (1,250km south from Rabat), the Moroccan king announced the new composition of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), confirming the royal proposal to grant autonomy to the southern provinces within Moroccan sovereignty to put an end to the three-decade-long Sahara issue, which was triggered by the claim of the Algeria-backed “Polisario” to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the motherland, after they were retrieved from Spanish rule in line with the Madrid accords.