Rabat, March 22 -- A Venezuelan MP on a working visit to Morocco has thrown his country's weight behind Morocco's Western Sahara position, praising Morocco's Autonomy Plan for settling the territorial conflict.

Francisco Sucre, president of the Venezuelan Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday in Rabat that the international community should give more credit to Morocco's efforts in finding a definitive end to the decades-long dispute in Western Sahara.

"Morocco's proposal, local autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, is a welcome and wise initiative," Sucre said, referring to Morocco's 2007 plan to solve the Western Sahara territorial dispute.

The Autonomy Plan seeks to establish a platform of autonomous local governme...