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Stephanie Williams, Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), has praised the support provided by Morocco and King Mohammed VI to the efforts made by the United Nations to solve the Libyan crisis. Speaking to journalists following her talks held Thursday in Rabat with Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita, Mrs. Williams, who is […]
Morocco exercised its legitimate sovereign right to delimit its territorial waters and remains open to negotiations with Spain in case of overlaps, said foreign minister Nasser Bourita. Delimiting territorial waters is a sovereign right guaranteed by the international law, he said following talks with Spanish foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, in Rabat Friday Spain delimited […]
Morocco denounced as an anomaly the membership of the Polisario entity in the African Union’s free trade accord, citing that the self-declared SADR republic lacks the attributes of a state. Speaking at the end of the African Union’s summit in Niamey, foreign minister Nasser Bourita made it clear that Morocco’s membership in the AfCFTA shall […]
The visit EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini is paying to Morocco since Wednesday confirms the depth of the strategic partnership binding the North African country to the European Union as the trip comes after the renewal of the Morocco-EU farm deal, including the Sahara. During her stay, Mogherini will meet several top Moroccan officials. […]
Morocco will never compromise on its territorial integrity at the UN-led direct talks in Geneva next December, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said. Speaking to Le Monde, Bourita said that any solution that undermines Morocco’s territorial integrity or that advocates the unfeasible referendum option will be rejected by Morocco. Bourita who made the interview last week […]
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his French peer Jean-Yves Le Drian held their first ever meeting in Paris, an opportunity to celebrate the longstanding ties of win-win partnership and cooperation between the two countries. The meeting between the two ministers was held in Le Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud where in November 1955, the agreements […]
South Sudan has reiterated its position in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces, the Sahara, dissipating a false hope by Algeria and its proxy the Polisario to see Africa’s youngest nation be deluded to back its separatist thesis. The South Sudanese position was expressed in a joint statement in Rabat by foreign minister […]
Morocco reiterates its refusal of hosting migrant detention centers known as disembarkation platforms allowing the EU to externalize its asylum and migration policies. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita reaffirmed that his country “is generally opposed to all kinds of centers,” “This is part of our migration policy […]
Morocco and Mauritania, two Maghrebin neighbours sharing common history, have agreed to enhance further their cooperation ties in the economic, commercial and security fields. The two countries foreign ministers, who met Thursday in Rabat, underlined the shared willingness and strong determination of their governments to lift their bilateral relations to higher levels. Morocco’s top diplomat […]
Morocco and the US agreed to convene the next session of their strategic dialogue in 2019 in Washington DC. The decision was made at talks held in Washington by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. The next strategic dialogue will cover means of fostering economic and political ties as well as […]