MOROCCO: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT

					  UNCLAS RABAT 001095 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR NEA/MAG AND NEA/I 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ MO
SUBJECT: MOROCCO: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT 
FORMATION 
 
REF: A. RABAT 989 
 
     
B. STATE 81632 
 
					

1. (SBU) Further to reftels, MFA Director of Arab and Islamic
Organizations Hassan Hami contacted Poloff on June 5 to
report that during the May 27 Morocco-Kuwait Joint High
Committee meeting held in Kuwait FM Benaissa and his Kuwaiti
counterpart Sheikh Sabah Al Jaber Al Sabah issued a
communique supporting the new Iraq government. According to
Hami, the joint communique "welcomed the formation of a new
government in Iraq as a new step towards enabling the Iraqi
people to achieve their aspirations and calls for peace,
stability and progress in the region." There has been no
mention of the communique on the official Moroccan news
agency website, Maghreb Arab Press, however.
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