French President Emmanuel Macron is gettinghere in Morocco, where he is setup to fulfill with the North African kingdom’s leaders and goover collaborations concerning trade, environment modification and handling migration
BySAM METZ Associated Press
October 28, 2024, 1: 12 AM
RABAT, Morocco — RABAT, Morocco (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron getshere Monday in Morocco, where he is anticipated to fulfill with the North African kingdom’s leaders and talkabout collaborations concerning trade, environment modification and migration.
During the three-day see to Rabat, Macron is setup to fulfill with King Mohammed VI and Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and address Morocco’s Parliament.
The journey comes months after Macron altered France’s longstanding public position and backed Morocco’s autonomy strategy for the challenged Western Sahara. The relocation endeared the nation to Morocco and pushedaway it from Algeria, which hosts refugee camps governed by the pro-independence Polisario Front and has long pressed for a U.N.-organized referendum to resolve the dispute.
In the days leading up to the see, Moroccan publications admired the “warm reunion” and a “new honeymoon” inbetween the 2 nations while French flags were hung throughout Rabat.
France and Morocco have traditionally partnered on concerns varying from counterterrorism to Western Sahara. Morocco is the leading location for French financialinvestment in Africa and France is Morocco’s t