Based on the applicable regulations for the management of a state of health emergency and the recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Committee, and taking into account developments in the epidemiological situation in Morocco, the government has decided to reopen air space for flights to and from the Kingdom of Morocco as of February 7.

A technical committee is now analyzing the procedures and steps to be implemented at the level of border posts, as well as the conditions to be given by passengers, according to a government statement issued today, Thursday.

While affirming its request to citizens to continue to fully comply with all precautionary measures and to abide by all directives issued by public authorities in this regard, the Government also calls for the prompt receipt of vaccination doses and the completion of the vaccination course, including the addition of the third dose, as for “national solidarity” in the face of the pandemic fight.

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HM King Mohammed VI delivered, on Saturday, 31 July, a speech to the Nation on the occasion of the twenty second anniversary of the Sovereign’s accession to the throne of his glorious ancestors.
His Majesty the King devoted a significant part of this year’s throne speech to Moroccan-Algerian relations, reviewing the current state of these relations as well as the discrepancy and tensions that must be resolved, and concluding that Morocco and Algeria are more than just two neighboring countries, they are closely related twins.
Since the 1990s, King Mohammed VI has called for the opening of Algeria’s closed borders in the interests of both communities and for Moroccan unity.
His Majesty King Mohammed VI stated that since the signing of the Marrakesh Agreement in 1989, which established the Moroccan Union, Morocco had worked hard to strengthen fraternal relations with Algeria until the cause of the Sahara, which had disrupted the Moroccan case.
His Majesty the King believed that the current situation demands the overcoming of disparities, as well as the consideration of the past and future for the interests of citizens with bonds of fraternity, culture, and common fate, as the present situation of these relations doesn’t serve the interests of both countries, and is unacceptable to a great many countries.
Geographic location cannot change, and open borders are normal between two neighboring countries, according to His Majesty the King, because closing them is incompatible with a natural right and an intrinsic legal principle enshrined in international covenants, including Marrakesh’s treaty of the Arab Maghreb Union.
This is about the right to free movement of persons and services, goods, and capital between States, particularly the Maghreb countries, which have the qualifications to make it an integrated space characterized by cooperation, solidarity, and fraternity, and whose energies are directed by the region to meet common security and development challenges.
In this context, His Majesty the King adds: “therefore I believe that the security and stability of Algeria and the tranquility of its people are inseparable from the security and stability of Morocco, and vice versa: what affects Morocco will also affect Algeria, for he two countries are like one and the same body”.

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Coinciding with the end of the deadline set by Algeria for Moroccan farmers to evacuate the area of “El Arja” near the city of Figuig, sitting on the border between Morocco and Algeria, media sources said that Algerian authorities mobilized local media to film the departure in a behavior that demonstrates once again the extent of the military regime’s hatred for Morocco, at a time when the Kingdom chose not to treat Algerian farmers in a similar manner.

In this regard, the director of Emirates News Agency (WAM) in Paris adds that Morocco decided not to follow the principle of reciprocity, by allowing Algerian farmers at the borders to continue to access Moroccan lands, without any hindrances, specifically the Djehifet Oasis, which supplies them with drinking water.

He also considered that Morocco does not treat Algeria reciprocally, and does not involve the people in political disputes, because history records everything.

For reference, the border crisis in the region dates back to the 1972 agreement that was ratified only by the Algerian parliament, and not by its Moroccan counterpart. This agreement indicates that the border is Oued El Arja, based on a topographic survey conducted by both Moroccan and Algerian armies.

However, actors in the region consider that the agreement contains ambiguous data that refer to the “unnamed valley”, which is a valley adjacent to the mountainside.

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The Assistant Commander of the Mauritanian Army, General Mukhtar Bella Shaaban, arrived Yesterday, Monday, to the northwestern city of Nouadhibou, where the Guerguerat border crossing is located.

The independent Mauritanian News Agency confirmed that the aim of the visit is to study possible measures to “secure” the borders closed by the fictitious Polisario Front gangs for a period of three weeks.

This step broke Mauritania’s long silence concerning Polisario separatists’ disruptive behaviors in the region. This blatant breach led to the closure of Guerguerat border crossing in a way that paralyzed the movement of commercial exchanges between Morocco and Mauritania, limiting the supply of the Mauritanian market with Moroccan agricultural products.

After a long silence over the provocations of the Polisario separatists, King Mohammed VI affirmed, in his forty-fifth Green March anniversary speech, the kingdom’s rejection of the unacceptable practices of trying to obstruct the normal traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, or to change the legal and historical situation east of the security wall, or any other exploitation. In addition, the king  asserted Morocco’s readiness “to confront with all force and firmness the violations that try to harm the safety and stability of the southern provinces.”

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