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RABAT (AFP) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs Edward Walker arrived in Rabat late Tuesday for a short visit in which he was to meet King Mohammed VI, officials said Wednesday. Walker, on a regional tour that has so far taken him to Turkey, is to discuss the Middle East peace process with the king, who is currently in the southwestern resort town of Agadir, the same sources said. On Tuesday in Ankara he said he was "optimistic" about the troubled negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, despite differences between the two sides. The U.S. diplomat said an agreement could be signed "in the near future." Morocco is to play host on August 28th to the Jerusalem Committee, set up in 1975 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to oversee the "liberation" of Arab East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, and to preserve its Arab-Islamic cultural identity. Morocco's king holds the presidency of the committee. |
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