Politics

Luanda - The Kingdom of Morocco has always focused its strategy and campaigned for "effective and renewed" multilateralism, said Julio Gomes, editor of the Angolan newspaper "Pungo a Ndongo".

Rabat - The holding of the "BRICS/Africa" meeting without the prior consultation and active participation of the key nations making up the BRICS grouping, reflects a clear attempt to distort established multilateral processes, where consensus and cooperation between members should be the fundamental pillars, said political scientist Cherkaoui Roudani.

Johannesburg - South African analyst Sifiso Mahlangu blasted on Saturday the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African government's untenable contradictions regarding the "BRICS/Africa" meeting scheduled for August 24 in Johannesburg.

Rabat - South Africa's organization of the BRICS/Africa meeting is an ill-timed initiative that will bring little benefit to Africa, as the host country has never succeeded in bringing countries together or organizing an event aimed at achieving sustainable development, said Mohamed El Abida, Professor of Constitutional Law and Political Science at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.

Rabat - For the Kingdom of Morocco, there has never been any question of responding positively to the invitation to the "BRICS/Africa" meeting scheduled to take place in South Africa, or of taking part in this meeting at any level whatsoever, says an authorized source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates.

Rabat - South Africa is seeking to instrumentalize the "BRICS/Africa" meeting, scheduled for August 24 in Johannesburg, for political ends serving its own interests, stressed university professor and President of the Moroccan Center for Strategic Studies, Mohamed Benhammou.

Abidjan - Morocco is ensuring the preservation of its geostrategic interests in the face of South African diplomacy, which is accustomed to obstructing the Kingdom, said Ivorian political scientist Eddie Guipié.

Washington - Led by the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa is still in the grip of outdated positions based on an obsolete ideology, underlined Paolo von Schirach, President of the U.S think tank "Global Policy Institute" (GPI).

Rabat - South Africa, by claiming that Morocco has submitted a bid to join the "BRICS", in the absence of an official confirmation from Rabat, wanted to make the world to believe that leading countries in the continent, like the Kingdom, were applying to join this grouping, stressed academic Mohamed El Ghouati.

Lima - In the Moroccan Sahara issue, Peru should not turn its back on international political realism and, above all, should not continue to maintain a position at odds with international law, according to former Peruvian Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Mackay.