The United Nations Security Council will discuss Western Sahara, Monday, after President Donald Trump recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory, diplomats told Reuters. The closed-door UN Security Council meeting on the American decision was requested by Germany, the same source added. The step comes after the US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft sent a copy of Trump’s proclamation recognizing that the «entire Western Sahara territory is part of the
3,351 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 406,970. 3,924 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 366,835. 38 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 6,749. 13 of these deaths were recorded in the region of Casablanca-Settat, 9 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 4 in Marrakech-Safi, 4
The United States ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft sent an official letter, Tuesday, informing the UN of Washington’s new position on Western Sahara. In said letter, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations requested that this message be disseminated to members of the Security Council. The head of the Moroccan government, who welcomed via Twitter the officialization of this decision, also relayed the letter. رسالة ممثلة
The Human Development Index issued by the United Nations Development Program yesterday ranked Morocco in the category of «medium human development» countries, after it ranked 121st out of 189 countries globally.
Nearly 60 partisan organizations, trade unions, human rights associations, journalists have signed a petition against the visit of Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States. «Moroccans will never support a perfidious normalization and the question of the Sahara cannot be used as a motive», read the petition, signed by 250 people. «Moroccans see Palestine as a national cause and they regard the Zionist entity as an occupying, racist and criminal
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita will inaugurate, on Friday December 18, the African Migration Observatory. The Commissioner for Social Affairs of the African Union Commission Amira El Fadil will attend the ceremony. This project was proposed by King Mohammed VI and submitted during the 30th Summit of the African Union (AU). A second proposal was also submitted to create the post of an African Union Special Envoy in charge of migration, MAP recalled. This
Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said, Tuesday, that his country respects Morocco's choice to normalize ties with Israel. While visiting France, he stressed that «it is a choice that Morocco has freely made». «We respect the choice of Morocco, a brother country that we love very much», he told France 24. «Each country has its reality, its truth, and each country has its diplomacy which it considers to be the best for its people», he
Days after the resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel, Saadeddine El Othmani described the announcement as an «opening», acknowledging in an interview with Al Jazeera that, sometimes, «States are forced to make difficult decisions».
Once again, the former National Security Advisor of the United States John Bolton is criticizing the outgoing President Donald Trump for his recent decision on the Sahara. In an article, Bolton called the decision «another low for [Trump's] administration». He recalled that the president’s policy is «imperiling even long-standing formal U.S. alliances like NATO». «It is perfectly appropriate for a nation to modify its responsibilities in light of
The chairman of the Western Sahara Intergroup at the European Parliament has resigned. The German politician, political scientist and since July 2014he is Member of the European Parliament representing Germany as part of the Party of European Socialists, Joachim Schuster announced his resignation in a letter on Tuesday. «The aim was to encourage the EU, to develop – hand in hand with the African Union – a more active and constructive approach towards the conflict»,
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