Morocco's Ambassador to Algiers summoned to Foreign Ministry

Morocco's Ambassador posted in Algiers was summoned Tuesday to the Foreign Ministry in order to give explanations and clarifications about the hostile protest set-in organized by a Moroccan press trade union in front of the Algerian Embassy compound in Rabat following baseless reports speaking of the arrest of two Moroccan journalists in Tindouf.

• Authorized sources told Echorouk that the two Moroccan journalists in question had entered Algerian territory illegally without getting the prior green light from the official Algerian channels as it is usually done by all the members of the press corporation across the world.
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• The same sources added that such a trip to a border region should have been prepared beforehand with the official consent of the relevant Algerian authorities.
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• This formal procedure was not at all followed by the two Moroccan journalists who crossed into Algeria without having in their possession the proper official documents allowing them to travel to the Tindouf region, they said.
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• Political analysts suggest that the current disinformation and smear campaign against Algeria spearheaded by spiteful Moroccan lobbies hostile to a self – determination referendum in occupied western Sahara is a vain attempt to discredit the telling revelations contained in recent fact-finding reports published by “Echorouk” on the basis of a most eventful visit paid this summer by journalist and writer Anouar Malek to the occupied Sahraoui town of Dakhla, where he saw for himself the appalling ordeal of the oppressed Sahraoui population under Moroccan occupation.
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