Hours after Lebanon announced that Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri had handed over government training to the country’s president, Michel Aoun
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said on Wednesday that his country strongly hopes that the Lebanese, all components included, agree to move forward on the path of forming a government of national unity.
This is what emerges from a press release from the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published at the end of a meeting held by videoconference, with the Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants. acting, Zeina Acar.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Lebanese presidency announced that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri had handed over government training to the country’s president, Michel Aoun, which includes new names and a new distribution of ministerial portfolios.
The head of the Moroccan diplomacy indicated that Rabat strongly wishes that the Lebanese, all components included, agree in order to make the interest of Lebanon prevail and move forward on the path of the formation of a government of national unity. capable of stimulating a new dynamic on the Lebanese scene and which enjoys the confidence of the Lebanese people and the support of the international community.
Regarding bilateral cooperation, Bourita expressed the Kingdom’s readiness to modernize the legal framework and implement bilateral cooperation mechanisms, serving the common interests of the two states and the two brotherly peoples, the statement said.
In addition, the two ministers agreed to form a mixed consular commission to study the means of facilitating the obtaining of visas and to examine the residence and the work of Lebanese skills in Morocco, the same source specifies.
Regarding the Sahara issue, the Lebanese minister reaffirmed her country’s position supporting the sovereignty of the Kingdom, its national unity, and its territorial integrity, while rejecting any separatist entity, the statement concluded.
In 1975, a conflict erupted between Morocco and the Polisario Front over the Sahara, after the Spanish occupation ended its presence in the region, turning the dispute into an armed conflict that lasted until 1991 with the signing of a cease-fire.
Rabat insists on its right to the territory of the Sahara, and proposes an extended autonomy under its sovereignty, while the “Polisario” demands the organization of a self-determination referendum, a proposal supported by Algeria, which welcomes refugees from the region.
