Ahmed Charai
Politics, Africa
King Mohammed VI visits the Kremlin for the first time since 2002.
On March 15, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is slated to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow—his first visit to the country since 2002. The agenda will cover a variety of bilateral issues with bearing on the two countries’ domestic concerns: a free-trade pact signed fifteen years ago stands in need of renewal, while a four-year-old fisheries agreement for Russian ships along the Atlantic shores of the Moroccan Sahara promises to become a prelude to economic investment in the area’s ports and broader infrastructure.
But when …read more
Source: The National Interest