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  • Au congrès américain, soutien remarqué à la position du Maroc au Sahara



    © Susan Sterner
    Lors d’une audition tenue mercredi 9 avril au Congrès américain, le secrétaire d’Etat adjoint aux Affaires étrangères William V. Roebuck a conforté la position marocaine sur les provinces du sud et sur le processus démocratique en cours.

    La réunion organisée à l’initiative de la sous-commission des Affaires étrangères au Congres en charge de la région Mena était centrée exclusivement sur les relations politiques Rabat-Washington. Présidée par la députée républicaine Ileana Ros Lehtna, elle a été l’occasion d’affirmer d’une manière sans précédent, le soutien des congres men au plan d’autonomie marocain pour les provinces du Sud et aux réformes politiques qu’a engagé le Maroc.
    L’intervention de l’adjoint de John Kerry a été favorable à l’administration marocaine en qualifiant le plan en question «de sérieux, crédible et réaliste à même de satisfaire les aspirations des populations du sud pour prendre en main leurs affaires dans la paix et la dignité».
    Le diplomate a également souligné avec satisfaction le rôle croissant du CNDH (Conseil national des droits de l’homme) considéré comme un défenseur crédible et proactif des droits de l’homme au Maroc. William V. Roebuck s’est dit encouragé par la politique gouvernementale marocaine qui s’est attachée à renforcer le rôle du CNDH.
    Le secrétaire adjoint aux affaires étrangères a tout de même assuré que tout n’était pas parfait notamment sur en ce qui concerne «une nécessaire mise en œuvre des garanties institutionnelles assurant l’engagement des citoyens en phase avec la nouvelle Constitution».
    Cependant, il a poursuivi que sous le règne du Roi Mohammed VI, le système politique s’était libéralisé graduellement de manière très satisfaisante et positive. Pour accompagner le royaume dans sa mue démocratique, il affirme que l’administration américaine est en dialogue permanent avec le gouvernement marocain sur la question des droits de l’homme et celles relatives au soutien des réformes politiques.
    La chef de file des républicains, Ileana Ros Lehtinen a assuré que "le Royaume se distingue en tant que seul modèle de modération et d'espoir d'un avenir démocratique dans la région d'Afrique du nord et du Moyen-Orient, malgré la menace croissante du terrorisme et de l'extrémisme religieux".
    La présidente de la sous commission Mena a renchéri en qualifiant le Maroc de «pays modèle et d’allié stratégique avec qui les relations bilatérales n’ont cessé ces dernières années de se consolider au service des intérêts des deux nations.»
    La réunion au Congrès américain a également été l’occasion de parler de l’assistance de l’Usaid qui devrait continuer de financer nombre de projets de développement notamment dans les provinces du sud marocaines.
    Ces déclarations optimistes tenues dans l’enceinte même du Capitole à Washington par le représentant de l’administration démocrate et l’opposition républicaine trouvent un prolongement de la dernière visite du Souverain qui avait su trouver les mots pour rendre le Maroc indispensable dans l’échiquier régional.


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  • #2
    bonsoir

    le SAHARA a toujours appartenu au MAROC :22:

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    • #3
      @ sabledore

      la poignée de main d Obama à la RASD devant tous les assistants du Monde entier à Prétoria , politiquement un geste significatif ..mieux que mille déclaration
      A qui sait comprendre , peu de mots suffisent

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      • #4
        Intervention du secrétaire adjoint aux affaires étrangères, William V. Roebuck

        Testimony for the Record
        William V. Roebuck
        Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
        U.S. Department of State
        Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
        U.S. House of Representatives
        Hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Morocco
        April 09, 2014

        Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, Members of the Subcommittee,
        I am honored to appear before you today to offer an overview of U.S. policy
        toward Morocco.

        I am also pleased to appear before you today with USAID Deputy Assistant
        Administrator Alina Romanowski. I have had the pleasure of working closely with
        Ms. Romanowski to further our foreign policy objectives in Morocco and the
        region. We welcome the opportunity to speak to you today and look forward to
        answering any questions you may have regarding Morocco and our policy. [With
        your permission, I request that my full statement be submitted for the record.]

        Bilateral Relationship

        Madam Chairman, as you know, Morocco – the first nation to recognize the United
        States in 1777 – is an important and longstanding ally of the United States. We
        continue to enjoy a very strong bilateral relationship with Morocco, focused on
        promoting regional stability, supporting democratic reform efforts, countering
        violent extremism, and strengthening trade and cultural ties. Morocco – a major
        non-NATO ally since 2004 – is one of our closest counterterrorism partners in the
        region, and an active member of the Global Counterterrorism Forum. During its
        term on the UN Security Council, Morocco played an important role in
        international efforts to end the Syrian civil war. We also enjoy a strong economic
        relationship; our free trade agreement that entered into force in 2006 has increased
        bilateral trade by 254 percent.

        We worked to strengthen this bilateral relationship during the November 2013 visit
        of King Mohammed VI to Washington. This provided an opportunity for the
        United States to reaffirm our close strategic partnership with Morocco and to
        discuss the best means of promoting security and prosperity in the region. In



        particular, we worked to deepen our consultations on regional issues, and stressed
        our shared priorities in Mali, Syria, the Maghreb, and the Sahel. We continued our
        conversations during the recent U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue, which Secretary
        Kerry opened on April 4 in Rabat. The Dialogue, launched in 2012 out of a shared
        desire to find opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the United States
        and Morocco, discussed new avenues for cooperation in the political, security,
        economic, educational, and cultural spheres. We are also very pleased that our
        new Ambassador to Morocco, Dwight Bush, was confirmed in March and has
        arrived in Rabat.

        Support for Democratic and Economic Reforms

        Under King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan political system has gradually
        liberalized; the King founded the Arab world’s first truth and reconciliation
        commission – to investigate abuses that occurred during his father’s reign – and
        expanded women’s rights. A new constitution was adopted in 2011, and Morocco’s
        first Islamist-led government won nationwide democratic elections. However,
        much progress remains on implementing the guarantees and institutions, including
        increasing engagement of its citizens, under the new constitution. We have a robust
        dialogue with the Moroccan government on human rights and ways in which we
        can support the ongoing process of political reform.

        We will continue to support Morocco as it undertakes these important reform
        efforts. Our bilateral assistance – roughly $31 million in FY 2013 – focuses on
        promoting economic, political, and social reforms; deepening our security
        partnership by supporting modern military and law enforcement agencies;
        promoting export control and antiterrorism as well as countering violent extremism
        efforts; developing a professional criminal justice system; and encouraging broad-
        based economic growth that provides expanded opportunities for women and
        youth. Our flagship assistance program has been Morocco’s $698 million
        Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact, which closed in September
        2013 and focused on agriculture, fisheries, and small enterprises. Morocco was
        reselected in December 2013 to develop a second MCC compact.

        The United States supports Morocco’s reform efforts, particularly the recent
        progress on military trials. In the Joint Statement issued on the occasion of the
        November 22 visit of King Mohammed VI to Washington, DC, President Obama
        welcomed the King’s commitment to end the practice of military trials of civilians.



        We are pleased to see this commitment made concrete in the Moroccan
        government’s initiative to reform the Military Code of Justice and to exempt
        civilians from trial by military tribunals through a draft law which has moved to
        Parliament for approval. We have also remarked on the growing role of the
        National Council on Human Rights (CNDH) as a credible and proactive defender
        of human rights, and are encouraged by the Council of Government’s decision to
        strengthen the CNDH by ensuring that government agencies address complaints
        directed to it. Both of these measures are important steps forward in strengthening
        the protection of human rights in Morocco and in realizing the promise of the 2011
        Constitution.


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        • #5
          suite

          Economic and Security Cooperation

          There are many difficult challenges underlying the instability in the region today.
          The United States and Morocco are working together to address a number of those
          economic and security challenges, including addressing the issue of youth
          unemployment and youth discontent. Young people in Morocco make up
          approximately 30 percent of the country’s population, and one tenth of the region’s
          total youth population. Their levels of exclusion are high: 49 percent of Moroccan
          youth are neither in school, nor in the workforce, according to a recent World Bank
          survey. These young people are empowered by new communications technologies
          to see events across the world and to communicate with each other as never before.
          And some are frustrated by the lack of jobs and little economic opportunity.

          Our mutual concern for peace and stability in the region means that the United
          States and Morocco are fully engaged in both economic and security cooperation.
          On economic cooperation, USAID’s new Country Development Cooperation
          Strategy directly addresses the issue of youth unemployment through the creation
          of new vocational programs and career centers, to assist youth in finding jobs. The
          United States and Morocco also recently held the second U.S.-Morocco Business
          Development Conference in Rabat. Fifty-eight U.S. businesses participated in the
          conference in Morocco, resulting in increased business ties and helping advance
          our commercial and economic agenda to increase trade and investment.

          In the area of security cooperation, Morocco is one of our closest counterterrorism
          (CT) partners in the Middle East and North Africa region. Instability in the region,
          porous borders, and the collapse of state institutions in northern Mali have
          increased regional threats and created new opportunities for cross border illicit
          flows and for violent extremist groups, such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb



          (AQIM), to gain ground and stage operations in both the Maghreb and the Sahel.
          However, due to Government of Morocco’s broad, holistic, counterterrorism
          strategy of vigilant security measures, regional and international cooperation,
          socio-economic assistance, and counter-radicalization policies, it has been difficult
          for AQIM to effectively establish a foothold in Morocco.

          The U.S. Department of Defense and Morocco held the eighth annual session of
          the U.S.-Morocco Defense Consultative Committee in December 2013. These
          meetings build on the already strong U.S.-Morocco security cooperation in the
          fields of training, exercise, and logistic support.

          Morocco is also an active and constructive member of the Global Counterterrorism
          Forum and the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership and has played a very
          positive role in the development and dissemination of best practices in combating
          terrorism, violent extremism, improving border security, and building capacity in
          the region. The United States looks to partner actively with Morocco to build its
          capacity to a point where it can aid its neighbors on many of these issues in the
          region.

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          • #6
            suite et fin

            Western Sahara

            With regard to Western Sahara, the United States supports the United Nations-led
            process designed to bring about a peaceful, sustainable, and mutually-acceptable
            solution to the Western Sahara question. U.S. policy toward the Western Sahara
            has remained consistent for many years. We support the work of the UN
            Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara and UN-led efforts to find
            a peaceful, sustainable and mutually-agreed solution to the Western Sahara
            conflict. We urge the parties to work toward a resolution. With regard to the
            Moroccan autonomy plan we have made clear that Morocco’s autonomy plan is
            serious, realistic, and credible, and that it represents a potential approach that could
            satisfy the aspirations of the people in the Western Sahara to run their own affairs
            in peace and dignity.

            Educational and Cultural Cooperation

            The United States and Morocco have a long history of people-to-people ties. Since
            1967, our binational Fulbright program has been strengthening ties between our
            two countries. Fulbright Alumni have gone on to be government ministers,
            university presidents, eminent professors, and business leaders in Morocco. One



            recent example is Morocco’s support of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual
            Exchange Initiative, a public-private partnership between the Department of State,
            the J. Christopher Stevens Fund, the New Venture Fund, and the MacArthur
            Foundation to build innovative solutions that harness the power of virtual exchange
            platforms to address critical diplomatic challenges. The initiative is designed to
            fuel the largest ever growth in people-to-people exchanges between the United
            States and the broader Middle East, vastly increase the number and diversity of
            youth who have a meaningful cross-cultural experience, and catalyze the
            development and expansion of the field of virtual exchange globally. Morocco has
            graciously committed to donate $1 million per year over the next five years to this
            Initiative.

            Another part of the United States and Morocco’s long history of people-to-people
            ties is the Peace Corps. Morocco has one of the largest cadres of Peace Corps
            volunteers in the world and Peace Corps celebrated its 50th anniversary in Morocco
            last year. Historically, Peace Corps volunteers focused on a number of different
            areas; recently they have started to focus almost exclusively on the youth sector.
            As a direct result of the Arab spring turmoil, youth development has become a
            major focus for the Government of Morocco. As part of his new direction, King
            Mohammed VI has taken unprecedented steps to support programs that target
            education, life skills, illiteracy, and unemployment. Morocco anticipated the need
            for and requested an increase in the number of Peace Corps Volunteers serving
            youth in the country. With an already strong program working with youth, Peace
            Corps Morocco has re-focused its entire program to the youth sector and has
            excellent support from and collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

            Future Cooperation
            As I mentioned at the outset, the United States and Morocco enjoy a very strong
            bilateral relationship, focused on promoting regional stability, supporting
            democratic reform efforts, countering violent extremism, and strengthening trade
            and cultural ties.

            As part of this promotion of regional stability we will continue to work with
            Morocco on issues of peace and security and continue to foster greater economic
            growth. We are partnering with the Government of Morocco to focus on policies
            that will create jobs and growth, benefit the people, and knit the economy closer to
            the United States and the opportunities of the global economy. Progress in
            diplomatic agreements can help turn the extraordinary creativity and energy of



            people in this region toward the building of a better future – but it will take work,
            and we are working diligently with the Government of Morocco towards success.

            Conclusion
            Madam Chairman, Ranking Member Deutch, Members of the Subcommittee, I
            appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today, and I look forward to
            answering any questions you may have.

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            • #7
              et maintenant , on revient à la case de départ ,dans quelques jours un autre rapport en faveur du Maroc , les jeux sont faits suite à la visite de Kerry qui a renouvelé le soutien US , et, la position de l'ONU par son secrétaire général donne le ton

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              • #8
                sabledore citation
                le SAHARA a toujours appartenu au MAROC




                Tu dira la même chose en 2090 , quand les USA diront qu'il soutienne la mue du maroc vers la démocratie , que le plan d’autonomie marocain crédible et realiste .

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                • #9
                  a si Houari

                  ne sois pas un bébé une poignet de main signifie pour toi quelque chose???? dans un obsèques les poignets de main se font à gogo,
                  mais à ton avis, il y a eu des communications internationaux entre les deux Hommes???, je crois qu'Obama ne sait même pas qui il a donné cette poignet de main.

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                  • #10
                    tiens ,!!!
                    pas d'accusations de mensonges cette fois ci!!!
                    les évidences sont trop évidentes ,ma foi!

                    on est en droit de se demander sur le montant total des renumérations de l'ambassade du Maroc a Washington pour les rédacteurs de cette déclaration

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                    • #11
                      a monsieur Galaxy

                      en 2090 je serai morte et rien de m’intéresse ce qui se passe que ce soit en algérie ou au maroc soit pas idiot

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                      • #12
                        Tu dira la même chose en 2090

                        ha;ha

                        merci pour le fou rire!

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                        • #13
                          Impossible, le DERDER navigue toujours dans le coin, faites gaffe,

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                          • #14
                            defaite algérienne

                            Tu dira la même chose en 2090 , quand les USA diront qu'il soutienne la mue du maroc vers la démocratie , que le plan d’autonomie marocain crédible et realiste .
                            on dirait que certains ont perdu le nord.
                            trop de claques, ça laisse des traces.

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                            • #15
                              @salmane

                              Reve debout

                              meme le Roi M6 doute que le SO est marocain

                              le SO , la situation est difficile , rien n a été tranché ( dixit M6 devant les parlementaires marocains )

                              Vu aussi qu il avait boudé " Ross " ...
                              A qui sait comprendre , peu de mots suffisent

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