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Some 30 Moroccan Customs officers are currently benefiting from an American training against the smuggling of dangerous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials. The announcement was made Friday by the U.S. embassy in Rabat on its facebook page. The training is conducted at Morocco’s Customs Institute in Benslimane by four U.S. specialists – including a […]
Morocco is among countries which have made last year “notable progress” in religious freedom, said on Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Commenting the “2021 International Religious Freedom Report”, released by the State Department, Mr. Blinken said this year’s report includes several countries where we see notable progress, thanks to the work of governments, […]
Tunisia will send to the US remains of American soldiers who perished in the North African country during the Second World War. This came following an agreement between the two countries that was signed Tuesday. Tunisian top diplomat Othman Jerandi inked the Memorandum of Understanding with Natacha Franceschi, the Chargée d’Affaires of the US embassy […]
A group of Peruvian MPs have called on their country’s government and left-wing President Pedro Castillo to withdraw recognition of the Polisario’s self-proclaimed “SADR” and to cut ties with a phantom entity not recognized by the United Nations. The call was made during a meeting of the Congress’s foreign relations Committee held lately in the […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences and compassion to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, following the shooting at an elementary school in Texas, in which several innocent students were killed. In these painful circumstances, the Sovereign expresses to the U.S. President, to the bereaved families and to […]
The Republic of Suriname on Thursday opened a Consulate General in Dakhla, translating thus its strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara and its territorial integrity. The opening ceremony of the consular mission was chaired by Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin and the governor of the Aousserd region Abderrahmane El Jaouhari, in the presence […]
Means to consolidate judicial relations between Morocco and the USA were discussed in Rabat Monday between a visiting delegation of U.S. attorneys general and the delegate president of the High Council of the Judiciary (CSPJ), Mohamed Abdennabaoui. The meeting provided an opportunity to explore the prospects for consolidating judicial relations between the CSPJ and judicial […]
King Mohammed VI has been awarded the “Esquipulas Peace Prize»; the highest distinction bestowed by the regional parliamentary organization FOPREL. The Forum of Presidents of Legislative Powers of Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico (FOPREL) awarded the distinction to King Mohammed VI, under a resolution adopted at the opening of the 26th extraordinary session of […]
Washington will slash its economic assistance to Tunisia next year over the authoritarian path taken by authorities, said Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The US diplomat has not indicated the amount of the cut off but added that the move is due to “the disappointing turn taken […]
The Michigan Senate has adopted a resolution urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow farmers, along with trade associations representing farmers, to import fertilizers and fertilizer ingredients from Morocco. The resolution, endorsed Tuesday, was sponsored by republican Senator Curt VanderWall. It calls on lawmakers to petition the U.S. International Trade Commission to temporarily waive […]