Morocco World News
Morocco World News
Rabat, February 6, 2012
Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef El Merzouki will pay a working visit to Morocco on February 8-10, the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery said in a statement on Monday.
After his election as President of Tunisia per interim, Merzouki held a telephone conversation with King Mohammed VI of Morocco. This was his first contact with a foreign head of State.
In many of his public appearances, Tunisia’s President has stressed that the activation of the Maghreb Arab Union is more necessary than ever, adding that the peoples of the region aspire to see an area of free movement with open borders becomes true.
In an interview to Morocco’s tv channel Medi1 TV broadcast on January 30, Merzouki pointed out that reinvigorating the Maghreb is a “top priority” for Tunisia and that “2012 will be the year of the Maghreb.”
He is also among the staunch advocates for the return of Morocco to the African Union. “The African Union cannot do without a country as important as Morocco, this is a major anomaly that must be corrected,” he said in a speech at the opening of 18th Summit of the Heads of States and Governments of the African Union held in Addis Ababa on January 29-30.
Merzouki had studied in Tangier and his father was a political refugee in Morocco in 1956.
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