Hosted by the U.S. Department of State, the second edition of the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Energy Working Group meeting was held Thursday, 19th of April, in Washington D.C., reported a communiqué sent Friday to Yabiladi. The meeting co-chaired by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Sandra Oudkirk and Director General Amina Benkhadra, National Bureau of Petroleum and Mines for Morocco was attended by officials from the Department of Commerce and members of the Moroccan
In his daily press briefing held Thursday, 19th of April, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric stated that «first, I can say that neither Bir Lahlou nor Tifariti fall within the buffer strip». «Nevertheless, a MINURSO map clearly shows that teams are installed in both territories which makes them de facto under the responsibility of the mission», a well informed source told Yabiladi. Stéphane Dujarric has already
Details about EPA’s chief trip to Morocco were hidden when sent to ABC news. Huge blocks of the calendars were blacked out raising more questions about what Scott Pruitt was doing in the Kingdom.
The draft resolution submitted last night to the UN Security Council is worrying to Morocco. The document failed to make reference to the Polisario’s military incursions into the buffer zones.
On April the 11th, Moroccan actor and stand-up comedian Gad Elmaleh was Jimmy Fallon's guest on NBC's The Tonight Show. Promoting his new show the “American Dream”, the bilingual actor showed everyone there the steps of a Moroccan dance. After talking about cinema, the French version of Saturday Night Live and the American comedian Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon carried on his interview with Gad while dancing to some Moroccan music. “Dancing is very important to me”
In his report on the Sahara, Antonio Guterres pointed to the MINURSO’s inability to monitor the ceasefire and report military movements in the eastern part of the security wall where ground patrols are carried only by day.
King Mohammed VI has spoken UNSG Antonio General about the Polisario’s military presence in the buffer zones, said Nasser Bourita. The sovereign insisted that Algeria to bear part of the responsibility of Algeria regarding the territorial dispute.
A Democrat is questioning EPA’s chief recent trip to Morocco. In a letter sent to the agency, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse points at Scott Pruitt’s meetings with LNG exporters days before visiting the Kingdom.
The United Nations does not take sides in the Sahara issue, said, Tuesday in New York, UNSG spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. «The UN does not take sides. The MINURSO reports what it observes. The mission has to cover a very large zone. It goes and reports what it sees,» he said at the daily press briefing, answering a question on allegations by some media outlets on this issue. «Again, it is not a matter of taking sides. It is a matter of reporting what we see, as will do
Security measures are taken in both New York and the UK to go through the «Punish a Muslim Day» a hate campaign that targets Muslims. Muslim communities unite in the two countries to fight against racism and Islamophobia.