Rabat - Morocco’s Head of Government Abdelilah Benkirane has completed on Wednesday afternoon his royal mission to Mauritania, in which he met Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Zouerate as an envoy of Mohammed VI, according to Mauritanian news outlet Sahara Media.
Rabat – Morocco’s Head of Government Abdelilah Benkirane has completed on Wednesday afternoon his royal mission to Mauritania, in which he met Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Zouerate as an envoy of Mohammed VI, according to Mauritanian news outlet Sahara Media.
Benkirane left Zouerate Airport in the north of Mauritania aboard a private Moroccan plane, made a stopover in the Nouakchott International Airport, where Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, arrived after Benkirane’s departure to complete the rest of the royal mission, according to the same source.
Bourita will meet a number of Mauritanian officials in line with the two countries’ efforts to revamp their relations.
During a press conference held Wednesday morning after his meeting with the Mauritanian President, Benkirane said that “ties between Moroccan and Mauritania are solid and powerful, and that they will be more developed in the future.”
“The future ties between the two countries will be more strengthened in order for Mauritanian citizens to feel that they enjoy all their rights in Morocco, with the same being true for Moroccans in Mauritania,” Benkirane added.
The royal mission assigned to Benkirane follows the controversial statement of the Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, Hamid Chabat, about Mauritania. During a speech delivered last week in front of his workers union affiliated with the Istiqlal Party, Chabat said “Mauritania lays on Moroccan soil and it is a land that is purely Moroccan.”
