Morocco Proposes Sahara for Next Negev Summit, Seeks Palestinian Inclusion

Scheduled for 2023, the next meeting of senior officials from the nations represented at the Negev Summit, which gave birth to the creation and strengthening of a front against Iran, will take place in Dakhla, in the Moroccan Sahara, report several media. No official source has, for the time being, confirmed the information. But it is a wish that the head of Moroccan diplomacy had expressed during the press conference marking the end of the first Negev Summit in Israel. "I hope to see you soon in another desert," Nasser Bourita had declared.

At the end of June, the same allies held their first follow-up meeting of a steering committee in Manama, Bahrain, during which they tried to "expand" the Negev Forum project, in order to better prepare the next summit. On this occasion, a roadmap including six working groups in the fields of renewable energies, education and peaceful coexistence, food security, health, regional security and tourism was adopted.

The wish of the head of Moroccan diplomacy is to see Palestine participate in the Negev negotiations. Morocco and Egypt, "would have put pressure for the participation of Palestine in the forum," reports Times of Israel. It is a "probe of information" deliberately disclosed by the Israeli government to obtain the reactions of public opinion on the issue, react diplomatic sources in Israel close to the pan-African weekly Jeune Afrique.