Moroccan king invited to make state visit to Israel

03 November 2005

November 03, 2005

A spokeswoman for the Israeli president, Moshe Katsav, has confirmed that Israel has invited Morocco's King Mohammed to visit the Jewish state. Katsav issued the invitation at a meeting with an adviser of the Moroccan leader in Jerusalem for a conference on Moroccan Jewry. In their talks, Katsav apparently said that Israel had to renew official diplomatic ties between the two countries. So far, only two Arab countries have full diplomatic ties with Israel: Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, and Jordan in 1994. Morocco was one of three countries, including Tunisia and Oman, that suspended low-level ties with the Jewish state after the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising in 2000. The ties had been launched after an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal reached in 1993.

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