Security Council

Morocco-Spain high-level meeting to be held early 2023

The Moroccan-Spanish high-level meeting is scheduled to be held early next year, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, announced on Tuesday in Rabat. Speaking at a press briefing following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of a Green Partnership with the European Union (EU), Bourita said the high-level meeting will be an “important […]

Libya: Sharara oil field will remain shut down until rebels leave, NOC Chief

The head of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Tuesday said Sharara oil field, the country’s largest with a production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day, will remain shut down until rebels evacuate the oil facility they have been holding since December. “The armed group attempting to hold NOC and Libya’s economic recovery to ransom […]

France: Opinion Divided over State Payment of Salah Abdeslam’s Lawyer

Increasing number of voices, including families of Paris attacks victims, have expressed their discontent over the payment by the State of a lawyer to assist Salah Abdeslam in the process of investigations. The suspect number one in the attacks is now in custody in France. Elisabeth Boissinot, mother of a 25-year-old young woman killed in […]