The Diplomat
The Moroccan government this week excluded Spain and Germany from a meeting with foreign ambassadors accredited in Rabat to address the country’s new strategic options.
The president of the Special Commission on the Development Model in Morocco (CSMD), Chakib Benmoussa, held this past Tuesday a meeting with foreign ambassadors to explain to them the new national and regional strategies, “fruits of His Majesty’s thoughtful vision, announced in 2017, and which aims at the participation of all the country’s living forces to achieve its convincing and expected success,” official sources quoted by the Moroccan press reported.
The ambassadors of Spain and Germany, according to local media, were not invited to the meeting because of the diplomatic crisis opened with these two European countries on the question of Western Sahara. Morocco has tried, in vain, to get the support of the European countries in the Saharawi conflict and has not stopped inviting them to follow the example of the former US president, Donald Trump, when he recognized the Moroccan ownership of the Sahara. Tuesday’s meeting, according to the same sources, took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was organized “under the High Instructions of King Mohamed VI”.
