Moroccan King Pledges Support for Sarkozy Initiated Mediterranean Union

Moroccan King Mohammed VI, one of the major absentees at Sunday’s summit in Paris, who signed the creation of the Mediterranean Union (MU), has assured the French President of his support to the regional body.

King Mohammed describing Sarkozy’s initiative as “commendable” and himself as the “founder of renovated regional order.”

“The Kingdom of Morocco, which supported your initiative, since it was firstly voiced, has been very sensitive to the choices you have made during your historic speech in October in Tangiers city.

You have by this gesture reinforced the Kingdom’s constant and unfailing commitment to the Mediterranean Union,” the King wrote.

The relationships between France and Morocco are “fair,” said a source at the Elysée quoted by the official Moroccan daily in reference to the absence of the Moroccan sovereign.

King Mohammed VI was in late June on a private visit to France during which he met President Sarkozy.

It was in the Moroccan city of Tangier that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched the project October 23 which is “an appropriate” platform for multidimensional cooperation between the North and the South via particular countries that share the Mediterranean.

Then, it was in Fez (north east of Morocco) in June that the project was carefully mooted in the presence of experts from both sides of the Mediterranean to particularly avoid deadlocks and overcome apprehension.

Source African Press Agency

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