The Kingdom’s international relations cannot be blackmailed by anyone and for any consideration whatsoever, especially in this complex global context.
A statement from the Royal Cabinet, issued on Monday, described as “irresponsible excesses and dangerous approximations” the statement of the General Secretariat of the Justice and Development Party (PJD)
published recently regarding relations between Morocco and the State of Israel, in connection with the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In this regard, the Royal Cabinet stresses the following:
“First: Morocco’s position towards the Palestinian issue is irreversible, and it constitutes one of the priorities of the foreign policy of His Majesty the King, Amir Al-Mu’minin and Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, which places it on the same level as the Kingdom’s territorial integrity. This is a constant position of principle of Morocco, which cannot be subjected to political bidding and narrow electoral campaigns.
Secondly, the Kingdom’s foreign policy is the prerogative of His Majesty the King, may God help him, under the Constitution, which the Sovereign exercises in accordance with the national constants and the supreme interests of the homeland, foremost among which is the issue of territorial integrity.
Thirdly, the Kingdom’s international relations cannot be blackmailed by anyone for any consideration, especially in this complex global context. The use of the Kingdom’s foreign policy for an internal partisan agenda thus constitutes a dangerous and unacceptable precedent.
Fourth: the resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel was carried out under circumstances and in a context that everyone knows. It is framed by the communiqué of the Royal Cabinet of December 10,
2020 and the one issued the same day following the telephone communication between His Majesty the King and the Palestinian President, as well as by the Tripartite Declaration of December 22, 2020, signed before the Sovereign.
The nation’s active forces, political parties, as well as certain prominent personalities and associations working on the Palestinian question were informed of this decision, for which they expressed their support and commitment.
In a statement dated March 7, 2023, the General Secretariat of the PJD had “deplored the recent positions taken by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he seems to defend the Zionist entity in some African and European meetings, at a time when the Israeli occupation continues its criminal aggression against our Palestinian brothers,
especially in Nablus.
The PJD, according to the statement, recalls “the national position that considers the Palestinian cause at the same level as our national cause, and that the religious, historical and humanitarian duty requires redoubling efforts in this delicate stage of defending Palestine and Al Quds in the face of the escalation of provocations
and aggressive behaviors of the Zionists, and at the very least condemn the Zionist terrorism that does not stop.
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