LE FIGARO.
- What is the cause of the tensions between Paris and Rabat?
Khadija MOHSEN-FINAN.
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This deep and indefinite crisis was triggered by different factors against the backdrop of the predominant issue of Western Sahara.
Morocco believed that its plans for the recognition by the international community of the "Moroccanness" of this territory would succeed.
He thought European countries would fall in line with the United States, which embarked on this path in December 2020 under the Trump Administration, but Paris did not follow suit.
France still considers that the autonomy plan proposed by Rabat in 2007 is only a basis for discussion.
Does litigation have a sentimental dimension?
The Moroccan injury is narcissistic because France has not accustomed Morocco to this treatment.
Under Chirac, the nature of the relationship was downright intimate.
He had taken the future Mohammed VI under his wing, like an uncle.
There was real trust...
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