Contrary to rumors relayed recently by certain media, the Kingdom has not yet officially decided on its possible membership of the BRICS group and on its participation or not in the Summit of this group scheduled for August 24 in Johannesburg in South Africa.
On the other hand, what is certain for the moment is that Morocco will not take part in the “BRICS-Africa outreach” meeting (BRICS/Africa), scheduled for August 24 in Sandton, in the suburbs of Johannesburg, on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, assures an authorized source of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad.
The same source explains that South Africa, the host country, unilaterally arrogated to invite to this meeting the puppet entity “SADR” which, moreover, is not recognized by the four other members of the BRICS group (Russia, China, India and Brazil) and has never been recognized by the United Nations (UN).
Despite the information circulating on the Web, for the Kingdom of Morocco, there was never any question of responding positively to Pretoria’s invitation to the “BRICS/Africa” meeting or of participating in this meeting at any level. either, says the same source, evoking the deliberate and provocative breaches of protocol that marked Morocco’s invitation to this meeting.
And the authorized source recalls that South Africa has, in fact, always shown primary hostility vis-à-vis the Kingdom of Morocco and its territorial integrity, and has systematically taken negative and dogmatic positions on the question of the Moroccan Sahara.
“Pretoria has thus multiplied, nationally and within the African Union, notoriously malicious acts against the higher interests of Morocco”, adds the same source, noting that “it had thus become obvious that South Africa was going to divert this event from its nature and its objective, to serve an unacknowledged agenda”, hence Morocco’s attitude of ruling out, from the outset, any favorable reaction to the South African invitation.
With regard to its relations with the BRICS Grouping, Morocco certainly maintains substantial and promising bilateral relations with the four other members of the Grouping and it is even linked to three of them by Strategic Partnership Agreements.
However, the Kingdom has never formally applied for the “BRICS” grouping for the simple reason that there is not yet “a framework or specific procedures governing the expansion of this grouping”, adds the Moroccan source, specifying that the future of Morocco’s relations with the grouping as such, “will fall within the general framework and strategic orientations of the Kingdom’s foreign policy”, as defined by King Mohammed VI.
And the authorized source concludes that Morocco, which remains committed to “an efficient, united and renovated multilateralism”, considers that “multilateral platforms should not be used to encourage division or interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign States, nor create precedents which risk, one day or another, to turn against their initiators”.
