The King of Morocco receives an invitation from the Algerian President to attend the Arab Summit
Moroccan Foreign Minister during a meeting with the Algerian Minister of Justice.
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Moroccan King Mohammed VI received an invitation from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to attend the upcoming Arab summit in Algeria in early November, according to the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, yesterday, while diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries are still severed.
The Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Minister Nasser Bourita received the envoy of the Algerian President, Minister of Justice, Abdel Rashid Tabbi, who delivered "the letter of invitation addressed to His Majesty King Mohammed VI, to attend the work of the Arab Summit to be held in Algeria, on the first and second of November."
Morocco has not yet announced who will represent it in this 31st session of the Arab League Summit.
The newspaper "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" and "John Afrique" magazine reported in mid-September that King Mohammed VI would personally attend her work.
Meanwhile, Moroccan media said that the Kingdom will be represented by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
The presence of the Moroccan monarch in Algeria is important in light of the tension between the two countries, which culminated when Algeria announced last August to cut diplomatic relations with Rabat, accusing it of “committing hostile acts since Algeria’s independence” in 1962, before closing its airspace to Moroccan aviation.
For its part, Morocco expressed its regret at Algeria's decision to sever its relations with it, and rejected its "false justifications."
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