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The Algerian regime has instructed its mouthpieces to criticize the UN Secretary General’s choice for the upcoming Envoy for the Sahara in a move that further reflects Algiers isolation in the international scene. Pro-military media including El Watan wrote diatribes attacking Antonio Guterres and accusing him of supporting Morocco by choosing former Romanian Prime Minister […]
King Mohammed VI reiterated Morocco’s constant support to the Palestinian question, based on the two-state solution, as internationally agreed upon and its resolve to continue its constructive commitment to the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, and announced the holding shortly of a session of the Al-Quds Committee. This came […]
King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, received, on Tuesday Dec. 22 at the Royal Palace in Rabat, heads of the visiting US and Israeli delegations, namely Senior Advisor to the US president Jared Kushner and Israel’s National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, as well as Special Assistant to the US President and […]
The European Union has voiced again its deep concern about the increasing serious human rights violation committed in Algeria against pro-democracy militants, critics of Algerian regime and peaceful protesters. In a report published on Tuesday by the EU Commission on the state of EU-Algeria relations, the EU denounced arbitrary detention of Hirak activists, the excessive […]
Moncef Marzouki, former Tunisian President, denounced Algeria’s hostility to Morocco’s territorial integrity and the obstacles posed by Algiers to the Maghreb edifice. “We can’t hold 100 million Maghreb citizens hostage because of some 100,000 Sahraoui separatists,” Marzouki said in an interview with the London-based Al Quds Al Arabi. The former Tunisian President commended Morocco’s autonomy […]
The blocking of the Guerguarat crossing point by the Polisario militias, the destruction of the road connecting the Moroccan and Mauritanian border posts, and the provocations against members of the Royal Armed Forces are a serious violation of the last five resolutions of the UN Security Council. A diplomatic source that closely follows the […]
On the eve of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Green March, 3,000 lawyers, academics, journalists and civil society activists around the world renewed their commitment to defending the Moroccan identity of the Sahara as an irreversible feature of the region and of Morocco as a whole. These three thousand activists, member of […]
The Moroccan government Council, held Thursday in Rabat, has decided to extend the state of health emergency, that was scheduled to expire Saturday, November 10, until December 10, 2020, as part of efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Council adopted the draft decree extending the state of health emergency throughout […]
The opening Wednesday of a UAE Consulate General in Laayoune will give a new impetus to the “solid and strategic” relations between the two countries, said Emirati FM, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “This act is an indication of the long-standing and strategic nature that has always marked the ties between our two countries,” […]
Morocco has ushered a policy based on win-win partnerships and solidarity that was bolstered after its glorious return to the African Union in late 2017 and is now reaping the benefits with a growing support for its territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Sahara region. Zambia and Eswatini, a day after inaugurating embassies to Rabat, […]