First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco has expressed concern about the United Nations Organization’s biased stands when it comes to the issue of human rights in Western Sahara and in the Algeria-based Tindouf camps that are run by the separatist Polisario Front. The worries were reignited by the report that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki -Moon is to submit […]
As changes continue to redesign the landscape in the Middle East-North Africa region and in Africa, Morocco’s longstanding, friendly relationships with these two regions open new avenues for U.S.-Morocco cooperation, all the more so as the two countries have a shared vision on a set of regional issues, ranging from economic development to stability, from […]
Morocco does not need to take lessons on human rights from anybody, and especially not from those who “systematically” violate these rights, said Morocco’s king Mohammed VI on Wednesday. “Morocco refuses to receive lessons on the subject (of human rights), especially from those who systematically violate human rights. Anyone wishing to outbid Morocco has to […]
Relations between the two Maghreban enemy brothers, Morocco and Algeria, have taken an ugly turn after the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika called for the establishment of a mechanism to monitor human rights in Western Sahara, a territory whose independence is claimed by the Polisario. The call was immediately denounced by Morocco and to make its […]
Security issues and fight against terrorism were at the center of a phone conversation earlier this week between US President Barack Obama and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. “The two leaders discussed the importance of continuing to deepen our bilateral cooperation, especially on regional security matters of mutual concern,” said a press release issued by the […]
The United States has for years voiced support to the settlement of the Western Sahara in the context of the United Nations and when in 2007 Morocco proposed a plan providing to grant a large autonomy to the disputed territory, Washington has expressed in unequivocal terms backing to the Plan and subsequently to the Moroccan […]