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"صداقة محمد السادس مع آل كلينتون ستجبره على دعم المغرب في قضية الصحراء."
Bill and Hillary Clinton's friendship with Mohamed VI will force Biden to support a Moroccan Sahara
The economic partnership and security cooperation will be two issues between the US and Morocco that Joe Biden will not dare to change.
December 18, 2020 - 03:16
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Since December 10, when Donald Trump and King Mohamed VI made public the presidential decree by which the United States (USA) recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the territory of Western Sahara, the most frequent question is: will Joe Biden maintain this recognition When I get to the White House on January 20?
Under consultations and i ESEARCH carried out by THE SPANISH, the answer is yes. The new US president will have no alternative for several reasons: Morocco's support to the Democratic Party and the relationship with the Clinton family, agreements on defense that pass through the recognition of the State of Israel and one historical relationship or rich state with Economic interests.
The economic partnership and security cooperation will be two issues between the US and Morocco that Joe Biden will not dare to change. In fact, there have been few ups and downs in bilateral relations between the two nations with each change of administration.
Mohamed VI, the Clintons and Biden
Morocco's bilateral relations with the US are going through a key moment and with the new president they will change little.
As soon as the electoral results were known in the USA, the Moroccan media began to broadcast the visit of Jon Biden in 2014 , who was received by King Mohamed VI.
Since then they began to shoot the images of his passage through the Marrakech summit, where he assured in a speech: “ Morocco has a special place in the hearts of Americans . It was the first nation in the world to recognize the United States in 1777 ”.
A precedent is the excellent relations of Hillary Clinton and King Mohamed VI, which were exposed in the Wikileaks cables. "I do not know what the future holds for Morocco but it is a country in which I would like to advise that it be invested , because it seems to have made a successful transition, at least in the first phase," said Hillary Clinton in those messages.
In the 4,000 texts stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, when she was running for the White House, it was discovered the good impression that the monarch Mohamed VI also made on her . "I give King Mohamed VI enormous credit for the way he is managing the process of change in Morocco," he noted. Referring to the constitutional reform undertaken by the king in 2011.
Even alleged payments from the Alawite monarch were leaked to the Clinton Foundation . Councilor Huma Abedin indicated to Podesta in 2015 that the king had pledged to donate 11 million euros to the Clinton Foundation, if Hillary Clinton attended a conference of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) forum for the development of Africa and the Middle East .
Finally, on that occasion only Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea attended . The vice president of the Clinton Foundation took advantage of the trip to pay a courtesy visit to Princess Lalla Salma, the mother of the heir and then wife of Mohamed VI, at the Royal Palace in Marrakech.
Of course, there are numerous public and private visits by the Clintons to the Maghreb country. The last snapshot of the Clinton marriage in Morocco was taken a year ago , when in September 2019 they celebrated the 60th birthday of Moroccan-American billionaire Marc Lasry at the famous and luxurious Mamounia hotel in Marrakech.
His personal trips to the ocher city are recurrent, for example to celebrate the end of the year. There, Hillary Clinton was photographed with Lalla Meriem, sister of King Mohamed VI, visiting the ruins of the El Badi Palace from the 16th century.
He even appears with King Hassan II's sister, Lalla Fátima. They both attended a panel discussion at the Marrakech city hall on women's issues on a ten-day goodwill tour of North Africa that ended in Morocco.
The impressions are so good that even her name has sounded like the US ambassador to Morocco.
Recognition of Israel
US diplomacy is installed in Western Sahara, as it was pursuing Moroccan foreign policy, and that goes through the recognition of the state of Israel , which also has a close relationship with the defense agreement signed on October 2 in Rabat between the US and Morocco. .
The recognition of Trump was planned for after the legislative elections in Morocco in 2021. However, he was anticipated by announcing it before the end of the year after losing the elections. In this way he wants to finish one more step in his Peace plan that supports the interests of Israel before leaving the presidency on January 20. But also at a key moment for Morocco, with the breaking of the ceasefire with the Polisario Front on November 13, after 29 years of peace.
In this way, Trump puts the final pulse on his successor . In any case, Biden defines himself as a "Zionist" and a "friend of the Hebrew state." And he's number two Kamala Harris.
Precisely, the vice president committed herself in the electoral campaign to a two-state solution, speaking of equality between Palestine and Israel. However, he has stressed the need to continue supporting Israel and has frequently attended meetings with the AIPAC organization, which represents the pro-Israel Jewish lobby in the United States.
And then there is the appointment of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations (UN), with four decades in foreign policy and experience especially in Africa.
Question of State
Donald Trump made the decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in accordance with the US Constitution. It is the president who, through the executive branch of the Federal Government, directs diplomacy with other states.
The majority of agreements with Morocco are matters of state , with the Pentagon behind which are not directly political. Morocco is one of its oldest allies. All US administrations since Bill Clinton have affirmed their support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. Every administration, Republican or Democratic, has strongly supported the promotion of regional peace.
On October 2, representatives of the Pentagon and Defense signed a military agreement in Rabat to be implemented in the next decade that is aimed above all at security in the Sahel and Libya.
In this regard, the US ambassador to Morocco, David Fischer, made it clear: “We will work together to achieve shared security objectives : improve the readiness of our military forces, share intelligence, combat violent extremism, freedom of navigation and contribute to regional stability and security ”.
So the relationship is also a question of security. In fact, the Tan Tan military base that houses the African Command will be expanded.
Obviously, d ehind recognition of the historical US economic interests there. Morocco is the only country in Africa linked to the US by a free trade agreement. At the same time that they open a consulate in Dakhla, they will undertake projects in this town , which is already known as “el dorado”. Thus they enter a strategic area as a center of trade in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
The American company that now sits in Western Sahara on a 10,000 hectare site with 400 employees has spent three years conducting technical studies in the area.
All this was made clear by Ambassador Fischer in an interview this week with the national agency MAP: “Every time we can bring more trade to a region, it means more investment, more jobs. This is the US, and this is what His Majesty the King wants for this region that I call the Moroccan Sahara. We really aspire to economic growth and prosperity. "