Soft power rivalry in the Maghreb
When a Moroccan chef calls couscous “as Moroccan as the Atlas Mountains,” an Algerian rival is quick to declare it
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita held talls Sunday in New York, on the sidelines of UN General Assembly, with UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on the issue in October. A press release issued by Morocco’s Permanent Mission to the UN said the Moroccan delegation reiterated to Mr. De Mistura the four fundamentals of the Kingdom’s position on the Moroccan Sahara, as defined by King Mohammed VI.
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