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Rabat – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has started welcoming Arab leaders and delegations participating in the Arab League Summit, which opens today in Algiers.
Videos show the president at Algeria’s Abdellatif Rahal Conference Center, which will host the events of the 31st session of the Arab League summit.
A video showing the president as he receives Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita has gone viral.
The video shows Tebboune welcoming Bourita with a warm handshake.
Morocco’s participation in the Arab League comes amid political tensions between Rabat and Algiers, as the latter cut ties with its neighbor in August 2021.
The Algerian regime challenges Morocco’s territorial integrity by hosting, financing, and arming the Polisario Front, a separatist group claiming independence in Western Sahara.
Bourita is leading a delegation that will represent Morocco during the summit instead of King Mohammed VI, who has decided not to attend the event due to “regional and bilateral context.”
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In addition to King Mohammed VI, several other Arab leaders are absent from the summit, including King Abdullah II of Jordan, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tarik.
The event is marked by the presence of other Arab leaders, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Tunisian President Kais Saied, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, among others.
The summit will discuss several topics, including the Palestinian cause and regional crises. Morocco also called for the inclusion of a resolution to condemn Iran’s interference in the domestic affairs of countries in the region.
During the summit’s preparatory meeting, Bourita reportedly denounced the collusion of Iran and the Polisario Front.
Several reports have said that Iran has been active in supplying the separatist group with military drones.
Morocco’s government severed diplomatic ties with Iran in 2018, accusing its proxy Hezbollah of training and arming the Polisario Front.
Both Polisario and Iran denied the news, but Morocco said it provided the international community with evidence and reports documenting the collusion.
