Leaders of Russia and Morocco to sign declaration on strategic partnership

On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin will hold in the Kremlin talks with King of Morocco Mohamed VI who arrived in Russia the day before on an official visit. As the administration of the president of Russia said, the prime task of the Russian-Moroccan summit talks is "to bring the whole complex of bilateral relations to qualitatively new frontiers, and to impart additional dynamism to them". The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between Russia and Morocco which the leaders of the two countries are planning to sign on the results of the Kremlin talks must become the base for the aforesaid.

International questions, first of all the situation in Iraq and in the Middle East, will also be in the centre of attention of Vladimir Putin and Mohamed VI. According to the RIA Novosti information, the heads of state will, as official terminology says, "synchronise the watches" on the Middle East settlement problems and on the Iraqi crisis.

Having pointed to the "rather stable" political regime in Morocco, the Kremlin sources noted that this Middle East country "traditionally has big weight and authority in the Arab and Islamic world". In this connection, as the sources said, it will be useful for the Russian side "to hear how the Moroccan leadership views the situation" in the Middle East and Iraq, and its stand on settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and on resolution of the Iraqi crisis.

For their part, officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia stated that in Moscow they "appreciate the well-considered character of the approaches of the Moroccan side, its allegiance to peaceful political means of their solution".

Morocco was the initiator and organiser of the holding of many key summit conferences along the lines of the League of Arab States, the Organisation of African Unity, and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The King of Morocco is the chairman of the OIC committee on Jerusalem.

In Moscow they also stress that the similarity of the views on the struggle against international terrorism, as well as of the approaches to the problems of settlement of conflict situations draw Russia and Morocco together.

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