In the United States, the Office of the Historians has published a number of telegrams from the period between 1977 and 1980. During those three years Rabat and Washington maintained cold and distant diplomatic relations. In fact, Jimmy Carter’s administration intentionally slowed the process of sending the Kingdom weapons to fight the Polisario at a time when Morocco was committed to face the Soviet expansion in Africa.
Morocco and Algeria have managed to collaborate in the past, most precisely during June 1993. The kingdom back then handed over to the Algerians the leader of one of the most dangerous Islamic groups in Algeria, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), who fled to Morocco seeking refuge.