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This exhibition is a chance to focus on 245 years of privileged relations, marked by peace and friendship between the Kingdom of Morocco and the US of America, the origins of which date again to the time of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah and of the First American President George Washington on the finish of the 18th century, signifies Monday a press launch from the Normal Workers of the FAR.
The exhibition additionally illustrates the historic place of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef on the necessity to facilitate the touchdown of American forces, who got here to the Amies, in addition to the significance of the strategic selections taken by the Allies on Moroccan soil. , notably in Casablanca throughout the Anfa Convention in 1943, in line with the identical supply.
This exhibition additionally presents the chance to focus on Morocco’s warfare effort and the assist, each human and financial, supplied by Morocco to the Allies throughout the Second World Struggle. A distinguished place is allotted to the historic Anfa assembly between Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef and American President Roosevelt, within the presence of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, on the sidelines of the Anfa Convention, with reference to independence of Morocco and the consolidation of Moroccan-American bilateral relations, through the years, via a photographic reminder of the alternate of official visits of the Heads of the 2 States, continues the doc.
Organized round 5 axes, the exhibition encompasses historic objects and paperwork, based mostly on images, maps, paperwork, sketches and uniforms, a few of that are on mortgage from the Navy Museum of the Nationwide Guard of the State of UTAH /USA or made accessible by the BNRM and exhibited for the primary time as a part of this occasion, enhanced by testimonies from the Heads of State of the 2 Nations.
The exhibition focuses on “Kingdom of Morocco and the US of America: centuries-old relations”, “Operation Torch, the turning level of the warfare”, “Casablanca, a strategic alternative”, “The warfare effort of Morocco” and “Morocco-American relations after independence.
The exhibition introduced on the Nationwide Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM) shall be open to the general public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the press launch concludes.
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