The King of Morocco Mohamed VI is pursuing his two-faced policy with Algeria. While renouncing to participate in the Arab summit in Algiers (November 1 and 2) for unknown reasons, the Moroccan sovereign has just launched an invitation to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to go to Rabat.
It was Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Foreign who revealed this invitation to “dialogue” in the Moroccan capital in a statement to the AFP agency.
“His Majesty (Mohammed VI) gave his instructions to extend an open invitation to President Tebboune since this dialogue could not take place in Algiers,” Bourita said.
Invited by President Tebboune to take part in the Arab summit in Algiers, Mohamed VI officially gave up the day before the meeting was held. This is the version that Nasser Bourita has been trying to propagate since his arrival in Algiers on Saturday to take part in the work of the Arab foreign ministers within the framework of this summit.
The objective being to throw on Algeria the responsibility for the absence of Mohamed VI at this summit. To justify this “renunciation”, Nasser Bourita mentioned, in particular, the incident linked to the map of the world disseminated by an Algerian information business.
Mohamed VI made a “diplomatic error”
In an interview with the Al Arabiya channel, Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said that it is up to historians to say whether there has been a “lost opportunity” in the Maghreb and the Arab world, due to the absence at this summit of some Arab leaders, including King Mohamed VI.
In an interview with El Watan, the diplomat Abdelaziz Rahabi, considered that by refusing to participate in the Arab summit in Algiers, Mohamed VI “committed a diplomatic error which will break the last possible links between the two countries.”
The Arab summit in Algiers, whose work began on Tuesday, November 1, a highly symbolic date in Algeria, is marked by a record presence of Arab heads of state as well as the SG of the UN, the Senegalese and Azerbaijani presidents. These last three were invited by Algeria to attend the summit.
Among those present are the Egyptian presidents Abdelfattah al-Sissi, Tunisian Kaïs Saïed, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and the crown prince of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber who replaced his father whose state health did not allow him to come to Algiers.
