Cherkaoui Habboub, current director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), looks back on the achievements of his institution at the national, regional and even international levels. It emerges that Morocco has been of great use to the United States, France and other countries.
Morocco through the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) provided useful information to the United States, which managed to thwart bloody attacks. A radicalized US Army soldier who was preparing these attacks with the complicity of ISIS has been curbed in his momentum.
Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, who had expressed her opposition to the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, calls on the new US President to cancel the decision of his predecessor.
The normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab countries, including Morocco , was the subject of discussions between the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat. It emerges that the United States supports these agreements, and by extension the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The American recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara continues to provoke reactions. Robert Malley, president of the International Crisis Group, also a former adviser to US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, says this decision "has a negative impact on this Sahara file".
Morocco seems to be conditioning the implementation of its normalization agreement with Israel on the position of the new US President, Joe Biden, on the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The Algerian lobby seems to be pulling out all the stops against the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The Biden administration is not yielding to the pressure.
Morocco is putting pressure on the Spanish government to recognize its sovereignty over Western Sahara or, at least, publicly support, like France, the regional solution it advocates to resolve the conflict.
Royal Air would have opposed the boarding of several Algerian passengers on its flight from the United States, says Noreddine Belmeddah, the MP for Algerian emigration. These Algerian passengers, residents in the United States, were to make the trip to Paris via a stopover in Casablanca.
Morocco has recently acquired the Patriot air defense system from the United States, the U.S. Agency for International Trade said in a recent note on the Moroccan aerospace sector. This is the medium-range surface-to-air missile defense system against all air threats.
The brand new US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, plans to examine the agreements to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab countries, including Morocco.
The new President of the United States, Joe Biden, is said to have welcomed the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and the normalization of diplomatic relations between the kingdom and Israel.