On the Syrian- Moroccan today's summit
Morocco-Syria, Politics, 4/9/2001

The London- based al-Hayat daily said in its Sunday's issue that an Arab diplomat in al-Riyadh said that the summit which will bring together King Muhammad 6th of Morocco and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today ( Monday) in Fez is of a symbolic dimension, in remarks that Fez had hosted the first Arab summit in 1982.

The al-Hayat's political editor wrote that the Arab diplomat noted that the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had participated in the second Fez summit, despite his differences with Iraq, whose delegation, then, was led by President Saddam Hussein. This implies Moroccan efforts in order to bring about Arab differences, especially in light of a forthcoming visit by the Moroccan prime minister Abdul Rahman al-Yousefi to Jordan and Lebanon.

The political editor at al-Hayat added that sides concerned with the reasons behind the absence of the Moroccan King from the summit denied that his absence will have links to news rumored on ruling out the possibility of a Moroccan- Algerian reconciliation on the sideline of Amman's summit conference. Besides that, Morocco sees Cairo's summit for the years 1999 and 2000 were emergency, which means, from a diplomatic view point that the presidency of the Arab summit should go to Morocco as Morocco's presidency of the last Arab summit in Casablanca.

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