Closing liaison bureaus with Israel, a sign of backing Palestinians, king
Morocco-Israel, Politics, 11/7/2000

Morocco's King Mohammed VI pointed out Monday that Morocco's decision to shut down the liaison bureaus with Israel was made in line with the country's unfailing backing to the Palestinians and in a bid to force Israel comply with international legality and subscribe to the peace option.

"We made this decision in line with our peace and legitimacy-oriented stands to back our Palestinian brethren, shoulder our mission as Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee and lead the Israeli side to comply with the resolutions of international legality and to subscribe to the peace option, " said King Mohammed VI in a speech he delivered on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Green March, pledging to continue endeavors to fulfil this option.

He recalled that Morocco was a pioneer in the search of a peaceful, fair, comprehensive and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, a solution enabling the recovery of all spoiled Arab territories and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds Acharif as its capital.

The king added that Morocco had opened a liaison bureau with Israel as a channel meant to give momentum to the peace process. "But the Israeli government's denial of international legality, its renouncing to the peace option and its persistence to resort to the logic of blatant aggression against the unarmed Palestinian people, prompt us to take the initiative to shut down this bureau," King Mohammed VI said.

The king who explained that Morocco's stand towards Israel was not dictated by any fanaticism, renewed commitment to preserve the rights, freedoms and sacred values of Moroccan Jews.

"Our stand vis-a-vis the Israeli government is not dictated by any racial, confessional or doctrinal fanaticism, and does not mean either that we renounce our religious, historical, and constitutional responsibility in protecting the rights, freedoms and sacred values of our subjects of Jewish creed, like all the components of our nation that have throughout time coexisted in tolerance, conviviality, and mutual respect of sacred religious values."

King Mohammed VI stated further, "We will never tolerate, in the frame of the state of the law that we warrant, the slightest attempts to the freedom, security, property and sacred values of our faithful subjects, whatever their creed." "Everyone must know that we see to the preeminence of the law and legality and that anyone breaching them will be liable to legal punishments," he insisted.

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