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“Foreign policy is the domain of the king”, has just dryly recalled the royal cabinet, reacting to remarks deemed to be “irresponsible” by the PJD.
By our correspondent in Rabat, Yasmine Tijani
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Ct is an almost unprecedented fact that a political party’s disapproval of Morocco’s foreign policy. And it didn’t take long. It led to an immediate formal reframing of the royal cabinet to the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) and its secretary general Abdelilah Benkirane. Like a cleaver, a press release was made public on Monday March 13 pointing the finger at “irresponsible overruns” and “dangerous approximations”. This essentially consisted in emphasizing, first, the “irreversible” position of Morocco with regard to the Palestinian question; then, the foreign policy of the kingdom being a prerogative of the Cherifian sovereign, to warn against any “blackmail on the part of anyone and for any consideration whatsoever…