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05.08.10

Tunisian President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, received on Friday Prime Minister, Abbas El Fassi.

01.25.10

Algeria's allegations of human rights abuses in the southern provinces are aimed at undermining Morocco's image, at a time when populations held captive in Tindouf camps are living in tragic conditions and denied their rights, Morocco's ambassador to Kuwait Mohamed Belaïch said.

01.25.10

Salaheddine Mezouar was elected, on Saturday in Marrakech, president of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) during the meeting of the party's national counsil.

01.20.10

The Polisario is a group of "hostages" who serve Algeria's cause, Speaker of the House of Advisors (upper house) and Secretary General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) said.

01.20.10

Elliot Abrams, who served as Deputy National-Security Adviser in George W. Bush's Administration hailed on Tuesday the unchanged policy of the Obama Administration vis-à-vis the Moroccan initiative for autonomy in the Sahara.

01.20.10

The United States expressed gratitude to Morocco for its efforts aiming to resolve the crisis in Guinea, State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said on Tuesday.

01.18.10

Morocco expressed on Saturday its great satisfaction following the signature, Friday in Ouagadougou, of a Declaration laying down the terms of the transitional phase in the Republic of Guinea.

01.18.10

The Moroccan NGO of Sahrawi Tribes in France deplored the "barbaric" methods used by the Algerian authorities to repress the peaceful demonstrations, staged last Tuesday by the inhabitants of the region of Kabylia (North-East of Algeria).

01.18.10

Several NGOs in Europe, especially in France, vehemently condemned "the acts of violence and arbitrary arrests" committed recently by the Algerian government against the inhabitants of the Kabylia's region (north-eastern Algeria).

The NGOs said in a statement they denounce the human rights breaches perpetrated in Kabylia, and the repression of its people who staged peaceful demonstrations, on the occasion of the new Amazigh year, to claim the autonomy of Kabylia.

01.18.10

There is no link between regionalisation and the autonomy proposal put forward by Morocco for its southern provinces, the Sahara, Abdelhamid El Ouali, member of the Advisory Committee on regionalization, said.

01.18.10

The parties signatory to the joint declaration of Ouagadougou expressed their heartfelt thanks to HM King Mohammed VI for the Kingdom's generous support in solving the Guinean crisis.

01.14.10

Visiting South Korean National Assembly Speaker, Kim Hyong-O, hailed on Wednesday Morocco's efforts to achieve a peaceful and definitive solution to the Sahara issue.

01.12.10

China calls on the parties involved in the Sahara issue to show flexibility and overcome their differences in order to find a just, lasting and acceptable solution based on UN resolutions, Chinese Foreign minister Yang Jiechi said on Monday.

01.12.10

Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi lauded, on Tuesday, the important results achieved by Morocco in various areas.

01.11.10

The setting up of a "State" in the Sahara under Algeria's supervision goes against Spain's interest, former Spanish diplomat Maximo Cajal said.

01.11.10

The relations between Spain and Morocco have strengthened over the past years and no short-term hurdle can alter them, Spanish Foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Monday.

01.08.10

The Advisory Committee on Regionalization, set up on Sunday by HM King Mohammed VI, held, here on Monday, its first meeting.

01.08.10

Morocco, faithful to its policy, has spared no effort to help the Guinean people move ahead on the path of peace and stability, Morocco's Foreign minister Taib Fassi Fihri said on Thursday.

01.06.10

Morocco's proposal to grant broad autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, is "imbued with wisdom," contrary to Algeria's "rigid" attitude, President of the Algerian Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie (MAK), Ferhat Mehenni, said.

01.06.10

Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi received, on Tuesday in Rabat, a US Congress delegation led by Senator Jude Gregg.

01.05.10

Several leaders of Moroccan political parties hailed the decision of HM King Mohammed VI to set up the Advisory Committee on Regionalization, saying that such an initiative will further consolidate the democratic process, boost sustainable development and contribute to the elaboration of a Moroccan model of regionalisation.

01.05.10

United States ambassador in Rabat Samuel Kaplan reaffirmed on Monday the U.S. position on Morocco's autonomy plan in the Sahara.

01.02.10

Morocco has reached out to Aminatou Haidar in accordance with the principles of international humanitarian law, by allowing her return to the national territory following negotiations that involved Spain, the United States, France and the United Nations, the Panamanian paper "La Estrella" says.

01.02.10

Spokesperson of the "Khat Achahid" (Martyr Line) movement, opposing the "Polisario," said that the current direction of the "Polisario" front has no sincere will to find a settlement to the Sahara dispute as it takes advantage of the status quo.