RAMALLAH, Friday, December 13, 2019 (WAFA) – Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised today the principled position of Morocco’s King  Mohammed VI, who renewed yesterday the constant commitment of Morocco to defend Jerusalem and Palestine and preserve the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

King Mohammed VI dedicated a lengthy section of his speech at the symposium held in Rabat on December 12 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to renew Morocco’s firm position on the Palestinian cause.

Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita read King Mohammed VI’s message to the attendees of the symposium.  The monarch renewed the “constant commitment” of Morocco, its King, and government as well as the people to defend Al Quds and Palestine and “to preserve the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, by all political, diplomatic legal means and by all possible forms of mobilization on the ground.”

The Moroccan monarch also reaffirmed the need to find a solution to the Palestinian cause, saying that this desire stems from “our firm belief that peace in the Middle East necessarily entails the establishment of an independent Palestinian state defined according to the borders of 1967 and whose capital is the eastern part of Al Quds.”

“We urge the international community to be responsible for the development of a new road map to implement the resolutions of international legality and the peace agreements concluded so far,” the Moroccan King added.

He stressed that the international community’s ultimate goal is “to put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.”

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