Tag: GCC

Gulf Crisis: US Sees no End Soon to Diplomatic Spat

July 7, 2017

The US State Department Thursday voiced concern over possible continuation of the crisis between Qatar and the Saudi-led bloc after boycotting countries consider new sanctions ... Read More

Gulf Crisis: Congress to Suspend Arm Sales to Gulf Countries, Senate Member

June 26, 2017

US Senate member and chairman of the foreign relations committee has told the State Department that the Congress will stand in the way of all ... Read More

Morocco Extends Helping Hand to Qatar

June 13, 2017

Morocco will send planes loaded with food stuff to Qatar in a sign of solidarity that has no political dimension, in the wake of the ... Read More

Morocco Officially Offers Mediation in GCC-Qatar Rift

June 11, 2017

Morocco’s foreign ministry issued a statement expressing the Kingdom’s willingness to mediate in the crisis that has shaken the Gulf after Saudi Arabia and the ... Read More

Gulf Crisis: Cairo Calls UN to investigate Qatar’s Alleged Ransom Payment to a Terrorist Group

June 9, 2017

Egypt Thursday called for an UN Security Council inquiry into accusations that Qatar allegedly paid around $1 billion as ransom to a terrorist group in ... Read More

Mauritania Cuts Off Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

June 7, 2017

Mauritania has joined its voice to the Arab nations that cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar, which they accuse of supporting terrorism and sidelining with ... Read More

Morocco Opts for Neutrality in Qatar-GCC Rift

June 6, 2017

Morocco said that it is following the developments in the rift between Qatar and six Arab countries -Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, ... Read More

GCC Countries, Promising Market for Morocco’s Fisheries Exports

May 25, 2017

Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) offer an alternative market that may reduce Morocco’s dependence on exports to Europe, the Moroccan finance ministry said ... Read More

Morocco’s African Pivot, an Alternative to the Arab League’s Impotence

March 30, 2017

The landmark speech given by King Mohammed VI at the 28th African Union Summit set the tone of a pivot in Morocco’s foreign policy in ... Read More

Nine Countries Withdrew from 4th Arab-African Summit to Protest Polisario’s Presence

November 23, 2016

Nine Arab countries, including Morocco, have pulled out from the 4th Arab-African Summit in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), in protest against the participation of the so-called ... Read More