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	Mohamed Benaissa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mohamed Benaissa (born January 3, 1937 in Asilah, Morocco) is a politician from Morocco who is currently the foreign minister of that country.
		In April 1999, King Hassan II appointed Benaissa to the position of foreign minister just three months before his death.
		Benaissa has remained in his position under Hassan's successor, King Mohammed VI.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohamed_Benaissa (135 words)

	MDO - Investments key to Morocco's fiscal health - 10/26/1998
		That was the conclusion of Mohamed Benaissa, University graduate and Moroccan ambassador to the United States, in a speech he gave to about 100 people Friday at the St. Paul Hotel.
		Benaissa also used the forum as an opportunity to criticize Americans for not investing enough in Morocco and argued that the tendency to view investments in Morocco as high risk is unfair.
		Benaissa argued there were strong ties between America and Morocco and pointed out that many of its intellectual elite were educated in America, including 128 students with doctoral degrees and 200 more with master's degrees from the University.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/10/26/news/econ (533 words)

	Mohamed Benaissa: Morocco 'invited' to resume mediation in the Mano River region - Zawya.com \| Middle East Business News
		Mohamed Benaissa: Morocco 'invited' to resume mediation in the Mano River region - Zawya.com
		Mohamed Benaissa: Morocco 'invited' to resume mediation in the Mano River region
		Mohamed Benaissa, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
	www.zawya.com /Story.cfm/ZAWYA20050618075914 (233 words)

	MOROCCO-ALGERIA: WESTERN SAHARA STANDOFF CONTINUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ouyahia's visit "is inopportune", Morocco's foreign minister Mohamed Benaissa said in a statement.
		Benaissa's statement alleges that recent declarations by the Algerian authorities "go against" an agreement between the two countries affirming the need to develop biliateral relations and leave the adminstration of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara to the United Nations.
		King Mohammed VI of Morocco refused to attend the summit, citing his "profound regret" over Bouteflika's stance on Western Sahara.
	www.adnki.com /index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.178216102&par=0 (292 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Mohamed Benaissa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Benaissa told reporters talks with the Mexican official who is part of the delegation accompanying the Mexican president in his two-day official visit to Morocco (Feb.11-12) reviewed bilateral cooperation and means to support the two countries' private sectors to develop trade and investments between the two countries.
		Talks also covered cultural cooperation which Benaissa called "a pillar in the consolidation of ties between the two friend countries." He also noted that Mexico will extend 20 scholarships for Moroccan students wishing to study in the latin American countries while Morocco will also allocate 20 scholarships for Mexican students to study in the Kingdom.
		Other political topics, including the Moroccan Sahara issue, were on the agenda, said Benaissa who recalled that Mexico supports a negotiated political settlement between the two parties to reach a lasting solution to this artificial conflict between Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Benaissa_Mohamed_24828012.htm (366 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Benaissa renewed Morocco's sovereignty over the islet which is located at less than 150 off the Moroccan coast and that is "an integral part of Moroccan territory," he insisted before making a detailed survey on the historical and juridical aspects of the issue.
		Benaissa went on that Morocco still insists on a diplomatic solution as the only civilized approach on the basis of which the two countries can establish friendship and cooperation relations.
		Benaissa stated further that Morocco has always conducted surveillance operations near the islet coasts and on the islet itself which is located at 150 meters off Moroccan coasts.
	www.maec.gov.ma /en/leila/statements.htm (4949 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Asilah: Common Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		What was merely a small boy's dream some 50 years ago is now a prominent arts festival, attracting artists and spectators from all parts of the world.
		Mohamed Benaïssa, former culture minister and now Morocco's ambassador to the United States, was the boy who had a dream for Asilah, the town of his birth.
		The two men observed that "there is no common ground where the Arab Muslim intellectual - artist, writer or poet of the Third World - can meet his counterparts from the 'other world.' This limits their communication through dialogue and an exchange of experiences that should be open, intimate and direct.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199401/asilah-common.ground.htm (1509 words)

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		Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa has indicated that his country is still hoping that the Libyan leadership will succeed soon in its efforts to bring together all the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) member states, and that the AMU summit will be held in a positive and transparent atmosphere.
		Benaissa said, however, that the message that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had sent to the Polisario secretary-general, Mohamed Abdelaziz, on the occasion of 32nd anniversary of the creation of the Polisario front used "language that was rather unfriendly towards Morocco.
		Morocco and His Majesty King Mohammed VI in particular were looking forward to the Tripoli summit being a springboard for a fresh start, for a joint Maghreban action, and for a real reactivation of the AMU institutions removed from any provocation or unfruitful argument.
	www.asharqalawsat.com /english/news.asp?section=3&id=183 (739 words)

	Mohamed Benaïssa : Morocco satisfied with Brazil's neutral position over Sahara issue :: moroccoTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Mohamed Benaïssa also highlighted the sound political relations between Morocco and Brazil, recalling the commitment of Morocco in the organization of the Arab-South American summit in Brasilia.
		In November of the same year, Benaïssa accompanied King Mohammed VI to Brazil, and returned to the Latin American country to participate in a summit held in Brasilia in May 2005.
		Mohamed Benaïssa left Brasilia on Saturday heading for Bogota, where he was decorated by the president of Colombia's Hispano-American Academy of letters and sciences.
	www.moroccotimes.com /Paper/article.asp?idr=2&id=12334 (1424 words)

	ANBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Mohamed Benaïssa will be in Brazilian capital Brasília on Friday to discuss topics like the possibility of a trip by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Morocco and technical exchange in areas like habitation, education and water resources.
		A framework agreement was signed yesterday during the visit by Mohamed VI, marking the beginning of talks, but they have not yet proceeded.
		The first was in April 2004, when he discussed the visit of king Mohammed VI with president Lula, which took place a few months later, addressed the matter of the summit that was going to take place in Brasília and for the first time talked about the possibility of a Mercosur-Morocco agreement.
	www.anba.com.br /ingles/noticia.php?id=9904 (892 words)

	HM King Mohammed VI to Host Future Forum - Royal Blue Forums
		At a joint press conference, held here at the end of a meeting of G8 and BMENA foreign ministers, Moroccan foreign minister, Mohamed Benaissa and State department secretary, Colin Powell announced the organization of the meeting, the date of which is to be announced later.
		As voiced by HM King Mohammed VI, at the Arab league Summit of Tunis, Benaissa said the Moroccan position revolves around the concept of global security, which guarantees sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity of every State.
		Fighting terror and instability cannot be dissociated from the fight of under-development, disparities and other forms of exclusion, he said stressing the need for a sustained action of the international community to eradicate hot spots and discontent “used as an excuse by extremists discourse”.
	forums.rbhq.net /showthread.php?t=2485 (597 words)

	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of Morocco
		Mohamed VI from Morocco, on a state visit to Yaoundé (Cameroun) has been awarded the Grand-cross of Order of Valour.
		His Majesty King Mohammed VI has awarded the Grand Cordon of the Wissam Alaouite Order to the president of the Chinese assembly Wu Bangguo.
		King Mohammed VI of Morocco has bestowed the Grand Officer of Wissam Alaouite award on Malaysia's former ambassador to Morocco, Datuk Mohd Nor Atan, the first Malaysian envoy to that country to be given the decoration.
	www.geocities.com /athens/4795/Morocco.htm (320 words)

	Magharebia.com Archive 2004-11-30
		An editorial by Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa in Morocco's Le Matin on Monday (29 November) discussed the effects of a strong EU and its impact on Morocco.
		Benaissa called for continued neighbourly relations and said a series of agreements with the EU firmly anchor their relationship.
		Mohamed Seghir Said, a 23-year-old student of Maths at Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi-Ouzou, announced on Wednesday (24 November) that he won a prize at the Arithmetic World Cup held on 30 October in Annaberg Buchholz, Germany.
	www.magharebia.com /cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/date/2004-11-30 (836 words)

	Mincom IIaycom Weekly News / Royal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The message was handed over to Jamaica’s premier by Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, at a meeting in Kingston Tuesday, a statement by the Moroccan foreign department said.
		Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, is expected in Washington shortly to convey to President Bill Clinton a written message from king Mohammed VI.
		A statement by the Moroccan foreign ministry said Benaissa who is currently on a visit to Kingston, where he handed over Tuesday to the Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson, a message from King Mohammed VI, will later on fly to Washington, bearing a written message from the sovereign to President Clinton.
	www.mincom.gov.ma /news/2000/1007to1507/roy/roy.htm (1099 words)

	Maghreb Arabe Presse: Morocco, Slovakia seek to consolidate bilateral relations
		Rabat, Apr. 06 - Moroccan Foreign minister, Mohamed Benaïssa examined, Thursday in Bratislava, with Slovak President, Ivan Gasparovic means to reinforce bilateral relations.
		The visiting minister transmitted King Mohammed VI's greetings to the Slovak head of State and the sovereign's esteem for the Slovak government and people, said a communiqué of Morocco's permanent mission at the international organizations in Vienna.
		Benaissa briefed his Slovak peer on the royal decision to restructure the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs on the light of Morocco’s proposal to grant autonomy to the southern provinces within the framework of Morocco’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
	www.map.ma /eng/sections/politics/morocco_slovakia_se/view (338 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Talks will be held on the crisis in Brussels on Monday during a monthly meeting of EU foreign ministers, which Benaissa will attend after a stopover in Paris.
		Benaissa was to give a news conference in Paris at 16:00 GMT (11 p.m.
		It was not immediately clear whether Benaissa was calling on Spain to withdraw its forces from the enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0207/21/eng4.htm (480 words)

	U.S. Mission To Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Both Powell and the meeting's co-chair, Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa said they were pleased with the progress made at the initial planning session.
		And so, while we are very mindful of the problems that you raise, we also know that, while dealing with those problems and trying to solve them, we cannot let reform not move forward or stand still.
		FOREIGN MINISTER BENAISSA: (In Arabic, via interpreter.) I believe, first of all, the position of the Kingdom of Morocco regarding the issue of reform.
	www.usembassy.it /viewer/article.asp?article=/file2004_09/alia/a4092407.htm (3106 words)

	Middle East Online
		Benaissa to stand in for King Mohammed VI at Maghreb summit whose work is dogged by status of Western Sahara.
		ALGIERS - Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa said here Sunday he would stand in for King Mohammed VI here at a summit this week of the Arab Maghreb Union linking Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania.
		Benaissa said meetings between leaders of the five countries "will help us to overcome our difficulties and problems, to direct our efforts towards realising the hopes of the Maghreb peoples."
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=8249 (321 words)

	Mohamed Benaissa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/mohamed_benaissa (486 words)

	WSO \|Latest Developments at SC on deliverations of Baker Plan II
		"This position expressed by Mohamed VI is contradictory to international law and is a challenge of International Community", stressed the communiqué as reported by SPS.
		Moroccan Ambassador Mohamed Bennouna said the vote meant it was now up to Baker to find a solution acceptable to all.
		Benaissa, without mentioning the UN plan, said Morocco had repeatedly expressed readiness for dialogue to reach a political solution to the dispute.
	www.wsahara.net /03/jul_aug03.html (2067 words)

	WesternSaharaOnline.net - Welcome
		In a letter addressed to the UN secretary General, Kofi Annan, the Moroccan Foreign Affairs minister, Mohamed Benaissa underlined that these parties "should fulfil their obligations, refrain from entering into agreements or contracts involving the Territory and show the necessary political will by participating in the negotiations supported by the international community."
		The minister called on the UN Secretary General to bring the present letter to the attention of the members of the Security Council and have it circulated as a document of the Security Council.
		The minister recalled that the objective of the ceasefire declared by the United Nations on 6 September 1991 with the agreement of all parties was a complete cessation of hostilities in the Territory in order to foster a lasting political settlement of this question.
	westernsaharaonline.net /news/articles_view.cfm?DID=149&ART_ID=55 (574 words)

	Maghreb Arabe Presse: world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Lima, Jan. 25 - Moroccan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Benaissa, said here on Tuesday Peruvian Officials, MPs, political and intellectual personalities were responsive and supportive to the kingdom's stance its territorial integrity.
		Rabat, Jan. 26 - Moroccan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Benaissa, said his tour to some Latin American countries, he termed "successful" and "constructive", shows how deep are the economic, cultural and political relations binding Morocco to these nations.
		Tegucigalpa, Jan.27 - Prime minister, Driss Jettou, arrived Thursday in Tegucigalpa to represent king Mohammed VI of Morocco in the investiture ceremony of new Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya.
	www.map.ma /eng/sections/world/folder_contents?b_start:int=20 (514 words)

	The Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange
		Mohamed Benaissa (Student 1963), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, former Moroccan Ambassador to the United States and former Minister of Culture.
		Mohamed Dahbi (Student 1984//1974), Founding Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, MACECE President.
		Mohamed Ayat (Visiting Scholar 1988/89, 1996/97), Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Penal Tribunal for Rwanda, appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations.
	www.macece.org /alumni/famous.html (482 words)

	Morocco to host first meeting on ME reform -DAWN - International; 26 September, 2004
		Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa and US Secretary of State Colin Powell made the announcement after the unofficial launch of the forum held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
		Mr Benaissa said that Morocco was "honoured" to be the venue for the meeting, but officials acknowledged it had been difficult to convince any Arab nation to host an event related to a reform initiative that has been heavily criticized in the Middle East.
		Despite US concessions, differences in approach were evident even in Friday's comments by Powell and Benaissa when asked about the prospects for reform amid continuing turmoil between Israel and the Palestinians and unrest in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	www.dawn.com /2004/09/26/int8.htm (581 words)

	General News of Wednesday, 23 August 2000
		President Jerry Rawlings on Wednesday received a message from King Mohamed VI of Morocco and appealed to the North African country to rejoin the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
		Meanwhile, Benaissa has announced that Morocco is to re-open its embassy in Ghana.
		He told reporters that Morocco was one of the first African countries to recognise the independence of Ghana and followed it with the establishment of air links between Casablanca and Accra.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=11038&comment=0 (335 words)

	Webshots AP News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Benaissa talked with reporters on a trip to bolster European support in the dispute over an island it calls Leila, meaning night in Arabic.
		Benaissa said a deal was reached with Spain on Tuesday for both sides to leave the island unoccupied but Spain reneged.
		He said she insisted that Ceuta and Melilla not be discussed, and he agreed.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h31399141.html (536 words)

	SABCnews.com - africa/north_africa
		Mohamed Benaissa, the Moroccan Foreign Minister, today pledged not to send forces back to the contested island of Perejil if Spain withdraws its troops.
		Benaissa called on Jose Maria Aznar, the Spanish Prime Minister, who sent armed forces on Wednesday to evict a small group of Moroccan soldiers from the tiny island, known as Perejil in Spain and Leila in Morocco, to withdraw his troops "from all Moroccan coasts".
		Benaissa demanded "mutual respect" from Spain, saying that the Morocco "of the Spanish civil war era no longer exists.
	www.sabcnews.co.za /africa/north_africa/0,2172,38930,00.html (281 words)

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