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Moroccan-Italian talks in Rabat
Morocco-Italy, Politics, 4/19/2003
Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, the war in Iraq and the situation in the Middle East topped talks held in Rabat Friday by Moroccan Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister, Mohamed Benaissa, and former Italian Premier and President of the leftist Democrats Party, Massimo D'Alema.
Benaissa told MAP news agency he also tackled with D'Alema the European Mediterranean countries' contribution to settle differences in the southern bank of the Mediterranean.
D'Alema is currently on a visit to Morocco at the invitation of former Moroccan Premier and First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, Abderrahmane Youssoufi.
The Italian official will lecture this Friday in Rabat on the regional and international consequences of the Iraq war.
D'Alema conferred the same day with Territory Development, Water and Environment Minister, Mohamed El-Yazghi.
El-Yazghi briefed his interlocutor on the latest developments of the Moroccan Sahara issue. "While Morocco responded positively to all solutions proposed, other parties attempt to foil the proposals made to definitively settle the issue," he said, voicing hope that Algeria would "contribute to a political solution to this artificial conflict, a solution that takes into account Morocco's sovereignty over its territories and the construction of a strong and homogenous Maghreb." D'Alema said Italy, which faces territorial problems in the north "never accepted the creation of micro states....The parties concerned in the Sahara issue should try to avoid the emergence of micro states that will not help at all in the construction of a strong Arab Maghreb," he said.
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