The Arab Maghreb Union is expected to host a summit in Morocco in 2019, announced the body’s Secretary-General Taieb Baccouche. The last meeting of its kind took place in Tunisia in 1994.
The Geneva «round table» is based on three working sessions attended by the parties invited by Horst Köhler. One of these sessions will focus on the «next steps of the political process in Western Sahara».
Morocco and Algeria have not been on good terms since a long time. Indeed, the proposal made public by King Mohammed VI to strengthen ties between the two nations has fallen on deaf ears.