Al-Youseifi party succeeded in alienating the Israeli Labor party
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 5/31/2002

The International Socialism council holds its regular conference in the Moroccan Casablanca city today and tomorrow under the chairman of the former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Ghotepres.

Moroccan had hosted several meetings and gatherings belong to this organization, in which Abdul Rahman al-Yousefi, the first Moroccan minister and the first secretary of the socialist federation of the ruling people's forces has the post of its deputy chairman. The International Socialist includes in its membership 141 democratic socialist parties and organizations and labor socialists from various parts of the world.

This is, however, the first time in which Morocco hosts the International Socialist council which is considered the supreme commission for this socialist organizations which has the Middle East question as a predominate issue on its agenda. This fact had its impact on the conference before it had started as Moroccan legal and Islamic sides asked the Moroccan government to follow up the Israelis in case they arrive in Morocco because they contributed to the war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians.

According to well-informed sources at the Moroccan Socialist federation party, talks held between the Moroccan socialist leadership with its counterparts in the world reached an outlet to this controversy in affecting the Israeli Labor party in not coming to Morocco.

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