French President Emmanuel Macron is on a three-day state go to to Morocco, the place he has already signed plenty of bilateral agreements with Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The offers embrace investments value a complete of greater than $10 billion for Morocco, a former French colony. (AP & Reuters)
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Macron’s go to cements a rapprochement between the 2 international locations, with Moroccan newspapers describing bilateral ties as coming into a “new honeymoon” forward of the go to. The renewal of shut relations notably comes only a few months after France shifted its place on Western Sahara, abandoning a U.N.-led course of for settling the previous Spanish colony’s aspirations for independence in favor of Morocco’s de facto sovereignty and autonomy plan for the territory.
Over the previous three years, France-Morocco ties had deteriorated largely due to the Western Sahara problem. After the U.S. acknowledged Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory in 2020 as a part of the Abraham Accords, Rabat declared that comparable recognition can be a benchmark for its ties with different international locations. That prompted Spain to comply with go well with in 2022.
