Morocco: Jerusalem is one of our priorities
Morocco, Politics, 9/20/1999

Morocco said the cause of Jerusalem is one of its priorities and that it went in the time of late King Hassan II through political and diplomatic battles for Jerusalem, adding that Morocco is ready to resume these efforts in the era of King Mohamed VI.

An official source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that his country considers Jerusalem as an occupied Islamic land and a capital for the coming Palestinian state and that Morocco, which heads Jerusalem's Islamic committee under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI who urged the convening of an urgent meeting, made endeavors to prevent the step of establishing an Israeli division in a fair organized by the US Walt Disney Company at the end of this month in the USA, in which Israel alleges that Jerusalem is its perpetual capital.

The sources added that the Moroccan king discussed this issue during his meeting with Arab and Islamic officials and during his meeting Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, prince of Riyadh, who is visiting Rabat.

The spokesman of the Moroccan government said, "Morocco did not establish any official exhibit in Walt Disney," and that his country "will not accept the accomplished fact Israel practices toward Jerusalem."

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