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Washington – Morocco, through its multifaceted projection in Africa under the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, constitutes “a strong example” to establish a triangular cooperation with the United States on the continent, said Peter Pham, vice-president of the U.S. think tank, the Atlantic Council.
“Morocco, which was the first nation to recognize the United States, and with which Washington is bound by a treaty of friendship, the oldest ever signed by America with a third country, is a strong example to establish a triangular cooperation benefiting the African continent,” Pham said at a conference, Tuesday in Washington, to present his strategic essay entitled “A measured American strategy in the new Africa.”
This triangulation is even more necessary, he added, because Morocco is today “a regional power thanks to a capacity of multidimensional projection at the economic, cultural and spiritual levels and in the area of peacekeeping in Africa.”
He also noted that this projection capacity was consolidated by the announcement, made last Saturday in Abuja at a ceremony chaired by King Mohammed VI and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, of the gas pipeline megaproject linking Nigeria and Morocco, across several countries in West Africa.
He also recalled that Morocco is the first investor in West Africa and the second on the whole continent.
