Dhabi, Nov. 17th, 2008 --President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent congratulatory cables to Sultan Qaboos of Sultanate Oman, King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers, on the national days of their countries.

Rabat, Morocco - Moroccan politicians Friday welcomed a decentralization announced by King Mohammed VI as part of the search for a solution to the Western Sahara conflict.

Rabat was seeking "serious" negotiations under the United Nations to solve the three-decade conflict, which opposes Morocco to the Saharawi independence movement Polisario Front, government spokesman Khalid Naciri said.

The negotiations should, however, be based on an autonomy for the desert territory, instead of a 1991 UN plan for a regional referendum on independence, Naciri stressed.

Rabat, Morocco  - Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama, praising his "high human qualities" and political capacity.