The foreign observers consider that the informal meeting of Armonk City, near New York, in the USA, held under the UN auspices, between Morocco and the Polisario, in the presence of Algeria and Mauritania, the neighbouring and observing countries, took place as set forth, with no surprising results and each camp reiterating its former stands.
However, the Armonk meeting revealed the protagonists’ stands and real intentions. The Polisario, with no real project or initiative holds tightly to the obsolete and old-fashioned stands and uses, consequently, obstructive tactics, while Morocco tries to convince and to make progress negotiations in a constructive way.
Within this open and constructive perspective, Morocco presented, in headlines and in detail, its internal autonomy plan for the Sahara region, as part of a clear and ambitious vision for  the future, and as part of the regionalization process intended by the Kingdom to be implemented in the near future. A structuring process for the country regions as a whole, with more power given to the regional and local institutions of the Region, extended competence and a real autonomy in matters affecting land planning, exploitation and allocation of material and human resources.

Thus, the internal Moroccan autonomy plan for the Moroccan Sahara is in line with this global administrative and land reform context. The Sahara benefits, except for the regalian powers, from all the powers linked to the Region matters, as part of a real autonomy in land governance, with executive, legislative and judicial elected bodies. Hence, it is neither a whim, nor a chimera or an empty proposal! It is a ‘revolutionary’ project of society and Region management, complying with the related international standards, that Morocco presents, submits and defends before the UN institutions and the international community. Besides, the latter has recognized the ‘credible’ and ‘serious’ character of the Moroccan proposal and supported it.
Consequently, the autonomy project for the Sahara Region benefits from a wide international support taking into account its content and the wide competences granted to the autonomous region. Thus, it has started making ripples even in Algeria, as the Kabyli movement asks the Algerian central power to allow it to benefit from such a status!
So, the question is to know what blocks the opposing party. As the latter turns a deaf ear, not only to Morocco’s conciliatory moves towards them, but also to the advice of the international community, as well as to the recent resolution of the Security Council, and braced itself on the self-determination referendum idea that the Security Council abandoned, as the latter showed its inadequacy and non applicability on field.
So, why this obsession with an outdated question? The answer is simple: The Polisario and its backers, have no alternative project to submit and the separatist movement is paid by Algiers militaries who want to see this conflict continue as long as possible, as it legitimates their power and seizure over the country, hindering the latter from becoming more democratic, from developing its society and from participating, with its Maghreb neighbours, in the building of a strong and prosperous regional economic entity, which will resist in front of the globalization impact and the international covetousness.