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Member of the European Parliament Tomáš Zdechovský has denounced Algiers unilateral decision to disrupt the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline, saying the European Union should not accept Algeria’s gas blackmail. The MEP made the comment after Algeria, which has cut off diplomatic ties with Rabat, stopped on Nov.1st supplying Spain via Morocco with natural gas through the […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a speech to participants in the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which opened on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland. Here follows the full text of the royal speech, which was read out by the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch: “Praise be to God, May peace and blessings be upon […]
The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, opened Monday in Glasgow, with the participation of Morocco. The Moroccan delegation is led by the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch. This conference will be an opportunity for the Moroccan delegation to present the ambitious policies and strategies that Morocco has […]
The National Offices of Hydrocarbons and Electricity, ONHYM and ONEE, said in a joint statement Sunday evening that Morocco has secured continued supply of electricity, following a decision by Algeria not to renew the Maghreb- Europe gas pipeline agreement. to stop supplying gas to Morocco via The pipeline used to cover about ten percent […]
King Mohammed VI sent a message of congratulations to Abdelilah Benkirane on the occasion of his election as secretary general of the Justice and Development Party (PJD). In this message, King Mohammed VI expresses his congratulations to Abdelilah Benkirane for the confidence placed in him by the party’s extraordinary national congress and which illustrates the […]
The Morocco pavilion at the world exhibition “Expo Dubai 2020” was officially opened on Saturday evening in the presence of a large ministerial delegation. Located in the heart of the Opportunity District, near the United Arab Emirates pavilion and not far from Al Wasl Plaza, central monument of the Expo 2020 Dubai site, the […]
Abdelilah Benkirane, a former head of the Moroccan Government and former leader of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), is back to the leadership of the party. Benkirane was elected Secretary General of the PJD, during an extraordinary congress of the party held Saturday, in the presence of members of the National Council and […]
The United States delivered Saturday, October 30, some 850,590 doses of the Pfizer anti-covid-19 vaccine to Morocco as well as a $2 million donation provided by the USAID, aimed at providing additional emergency aid to Morocco and at extending further support to the Kingdom’s highly successful response to the pandemic. In a tweet, the United […]
France reiterated Friday in New York its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan as a “serious and credible” basis to reach a political solution to the Sahara issue. “France considers the Moroccan autonomy plan of 2007 as a serious and credible basis” for the settlement of this dispute, said the Permanent Representative of France to […]
The decision of the European Union court to annul two free trade agreements between Rabat and Brussels “is nothing less than an insult to international law,” writes the pan-African magazine “Jeune Afrique”. On September 29, responding to an appeal filed by the polisario separatists, the European court ruled for the annulment of two trade agreements […]