Green March Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/green-march/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Green March Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/green-march/ 32 32 King Mohammed VI shows an odd sense of timing in his call for normalization talks with Algeria https://jjcornish.com/2018/11/king-mohammed-vi-shows-an-odd-sense-of-timing-in-his-call-for-normalization-talks-with-algeria/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/11/king-mohammed-vi-shows-an-odd-sense-of-timing-in-his-call-for-normalization-talks-with-algeria/ Morocco’s King Mohammed VI says he wants to have talks with Algeria about normalizing the relations with his North African neighbour Algeria. He says Algeria will be allowed to set the agenda for the talks The Moroccan King shows an odd sense of timing in his call  for a rapprochement with Algeria. He chose the […]

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]]> Morocco’s King Mohammed VI says he wants to have talks with Algeria about normalizing the relations with his North African neighbour Algeria.
He says Algeria will be allowed to set the agenda for the talks
The Moroccan King shows an odd sense of timing in his call  for a rapprochement with Algeria.
He chose the 43rd anniversary of the so-called green march when Moroccans moved into the Western Sahara that the kingdom’s illegally occupied since 1975.
That occupation is the causes belli between the countries and paralyses the Maghreb Arab Union to which they both belong.
If Algeria is allowed to set conditions it would most certainly demand Morocco keeping its promise to allow self-determination for the occupied Saharawi people….
….which has consistently been bridge too far King Mohammed.

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