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00:00Good evening everyone, I am delighted to see you again in this new Carrefour d'Informations and right away, the headlines.
00:23In Algeria, the verdict is down for Bohelem Sinsal. The French-Algerian writer is sentenced to 5 years in prison. Reaction to follow in this newspaper.
00:37The European allies of Ukraine are unanimously opposed to the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia.
00:43Decision made at the end of the Paris summit, which this morning brought together the coalition of volunteers in support of Kiev.
00:53In Niger, General Abdelrahman Tiani was crowned President of the Republic for a 5-year transition mandate.
01:02Good evening everyone, before we start with the headlines,
01:09His Majesty King Mohammed VI Amir al-Mu'minin presides over a religious vigil in commemoration of the Night of Decree.
01:18It is now the Royal Palace of Rabat.
01:22And given certain constraints on the operation he had undergone at the left shoulder,
01:28the Sovereign will perform the prayer of Isha and Taraweeh in a seated position.
01:34The religious vigil is broadcast live on radio and television.
01:41We continue this edition with this resolution introduced at the American Congress in tribute to the historical friendship and strategic partnership between Morocco and the United States.
01:55Titled Recognizing the long-standing friendship between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America.
02:01The text is dedicated to the bipartisan commitment to Washington in favor of strengthening the historic and strategic alliance between the two countries.
02:10It was introduced at the anniversary of the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship,
02:17by which Morocco was the first country in the world to recognize the United States of America.
02:23The resolution underlines, moreover, that this treaty remains the longest diplomatic relationship uninterrupted in the history of the United States.
02:36And to talk about the scope of this strong diplomatic message,
02:41we are live from Casablanca with Ali El-Harichi, owner of the Institute of Political Science Mondiapolis.
02:48Mr. Harichi, good evening and thank you for accepting our invitation.
02:54Good evening, all the pleasure is mine.
02:57First of all, to begin with, what does this resolution contain and what is the scope of its introduction at the American Congress in tribute to the historical alliance between Morocco and the United States?
03:11First of all, such a resolution introduced at the American Congress is a recognition of a very long friendship and fraternity relationship between Morocco and the United States.
03:22The scope is very important because this resolution was introduced by two senators, one from the Republican Party and the other from the Democratic Party.
03:32This means that the representatives of the two major American parties or Americans recognize this friendship,
03:40this long friendship between the two nations, the two states, namely Morocco and the United States.
03:47And the fact that this resolution was introduced at the American Congress is a recognition of this friendship that is consolidated by time and history.
04:01It is an evolutionary dynamic, a dynamic that demonstrates the importance of relations between Morocco and the United States.
04:12These relations are registered at several levels.
04:16It is a historical relationship, of course, but at the economic, commercial, military and strategic levels.
04:26So, once again, all American officials, whether they are Democrats or Republicans, recognize this long friendship between the two states, namely Morocco and the United States.
04:42You said it, Mr. El-Helechi, a bipartisan resolution.
04:46But why is it important for Morocco to obtain an official recognition of its alliance with the United States through the American Congress?
04:58The American Congress, you know, the United States is a state where democracy is articulated through the separation of powers.
05:06And when we talk about separation of powers, we mean institutions.
05:09And we know that the Congress is one of the institutions of the American state, which has a gigantic importance at the level of the United States.
05:23And this separation of powers shows us that the Congress, that is, the legislator elected by the American people, recognizes in the name of the Americans this friendship with Morocco.
05:35So, the American institutions, we already had the President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump, who made the official recognition of the Moroccan-Saharan,
05:45but who also recognizes this historical relationship between Morocco and the United States.
05:52We have, I would say, the American executive or the American administration,
05:59each time there is a responsible person who always mentions the first recognition made for the United States by the Kingdom of Morocco,
06:10for two and a half centuries, and then an institution, that is, the American legislator, who carries and dedicates this friendship.
06:19And when we talk about friendship between states, it is a friendship that is inscribed through several domains, that is, cooperation, partnership.
06:27And this is very important. We are talking about the American power that puts this at the level of its institutions.
06:38Recognition by institutions is not a resolution at the level of the place of American democracy, that is, the Congress that represents the American people.
06:51So, precisely, concretely, how could this resolution be translated on the ground and strengthen diplomatic relations,
06:59especially between the two countries, and thus serve bilateral interests?
07:05Well, the Congress, you know, the function of the legislator is to vote laws,
07:11to produce laws, to control public policies in all states of the world.
07:16That is, this Congress, when it has a resolution that dedicates this secular or plurisecular friendship between Morocco and the United States,
07:25each time there are laws that concern Morocco or the region where Africa will be concerned,
07:32it will take into account this legal instrument,
07:37it is a legal instrument that dedicates, as I said, the strong, consolidated, reinforced relationship between the United States of America and Morocco.
07:47So, a place, an institution of production of public policies that can be internal or external,
07:57that is, public policies of American foreign policy,
08:00and that will be, each time Morocco will be concerned, will take into account this unwavering relationship
08:09and that is part of the slow time between the United States and Morocco.
08:14So, Ali Harishi, you talked about the role of the Congress, of the legislator.
08:20Now, can this resolution also have an impact on the Trump administration?
08:26Certainly, in the sense that the Congress represents the voice of the Americans,
08:35but also at the level of the Trump administration, when there will be decisions at the level of the Trump administration
08:42that have a very close relationship with Morocco,
08:48that have a friendship relationship with Morocco,
08:52and we have seen this in the framework of the statement of the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs,
08:58that is, the Secretary of State or Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States, Mr. Robiou,
09:03a month ago, the Congress will approve the public policies produced this time by the Trump administration, which is the executive.
09:13So, in this separation of powers, we have the executive power and the legislative power
09:19that are in favor of the consolidation and continuity, that is, in the long term, of these relations
09:27that are friendly and that are also strategic between our two countries,
09:34which are on the edge of the Atlantic, one and the other.
09:37So, indeed, the legislator can still strengthen and consolidate the public policies
09:44that are translated by the Trump administration, which represents the executive at the level of the United States.
09:50So, in this sense, we can also wonder, is it a first step to move on to other such strong resolutions,
09:58especially in relation to the Sahara-Moroccan file?
10:02Well, absolutely. So, in relation to the Sahara-Moroccan file, with this resolution,
10:08it will devote, as I said earlier, the laws that will be produced at the level of the Congress,
10:14and this resolution will become a legal instrument, a guide in relation to the decisions that can be taken
10:25or the laws that can be made and created by the Congress in favor of the recognition,
10:34that is, of the recognition of the Sahara-Moroccan file, as it was done four years ago by President Trump,
10:41who represents the executive.
10:44So, in the continuum of the production of American foreign policy,
10:50the legislator, this time the Congress, will rely on this instrument, this resolution,
10:56which is not a resolution for someone,
11:01it is a resolution that recognizes 250 years of friendship,
11:05the oldest diplomatic relationship of the United States,
11:09which has been uninterrupted since 1777, since the recognition of Morocco by the United States,
11:18since 1787, since the Treaty of Friendship that was signed between the two states,
11:25that is, Morocco and the United States.
11:28Ali Harishi, I remind you that you are the Director of the Institute of Political Science of Mondiapolis.
11:34Thank you for answering our questions tonight.
11:37With great pleasure.
11:41In the rest of the news, it is a strategic rapprochement between two major telecom operators.
11:48The historic operator, Maroc Telecom and Inuit, announces the signing of a major agreement,
11:54the goal is to seal a partnership to accelerate the deployment of optical fiber and 5G on the national territory.
12:02The signing of this agreement was approved by the Maroc Telecom Surveillance Council and the Inuit Administration Council.
12:09An agreement that puts an end to years of judicial battles over the deployment of infrastructures.
12:15The two operators are working together to create a joint venture
12:19intended to bring together all of their infrastructures, including 5G and optical fiber.
12:26An investment estimated at more than 4.4 billion dirhams.
12:33Boalem Sinsal is sentenced to five years in prison.
12:38The verdict came this morning with the judgment given by the Dalbeida Correctional Court near Algiers.
12:45Five years in prison is half the sentence required by the court against the Franco-Algerian writer,
12:52arrested last November.
12:54Accused of infringing on the integrity of the Algerian territory,
12:58his arrest accentuated the crisis between Paris and Algiers, France demanding its liberation.
13:08And by the way, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on the issue,
13:13he reacted by calling on the Algerian authorities to take decisions,
13:17especially human, to free Boalem Sinsal.
13:20Together we listen to him.
13:23I want to say here all my support to Mr. Sinsal, to him and his family.
13:28And I strongly wish that after this judgment,
13:34there can be clear decisions, I would say human and humanitarian,
13:38by the highest Algerian authorities,
13:40to be able to give him his freedom and allow him to become a free man again
13:46and to heal because he also fights the disease.
13:50A sentence that arouses a lot of reaction,
13:54including among the journalists and writers of the continent.
13:57Let's listen to the Senegalese journalist Pape Alionssar.
14:03It's a general sentence.
14:06I think the opinion is general.
14:08I think the criticisms are general.
14:12I think that whether in the African continent or elsewhere,
14:15the specialists of the pen, the engineers of imagination,
14:21the observers and literary critics today,
14:24I think there is a cry of the heart and above all a cry of distress.
14:27We are in the 28th century,
14:29but why would a writer simply be incarcerated,
14:33judged illegally for simply the freedom of his style,
14:37the freedom of his ideas?
14:39But as we say, generally, like presidents,
14:42intellectuals or great writers,
14:45the case is prison, it is unfair.
14:47But today, what to say?
14:49We should simply denounce
14:51and think that the Algerian authorities will come back to the reason.
14:54And the reason would be simply to free the writer
14:58because he is unfairly arrested,
15:02he was unfairly judged today.
15:05I think that my voice aggrieves those writers,
15:08especially those passionate about literature.
15:10We must free Warem Sansad.
15:13Again, to speak,
15:15they are announced for a return to cease fire in Gaza.
15:18An Egyptian delegation arrived in Doha to speak,
15:22according to Egyptian media.
15:24Beyond a return to cease fire,
15:26it is also a question of ensuring an exchange of prisoner hostages
15:30between Hamas and Israel,
15:32as well as the resumption of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
15:35The mediators seek, I quote,
15:38to secure the release of prisoners and hostages
15:41in the context of a transitional phase,
15:43while the Israeli army has resumed its offensive
15:46on the Palestinian territory.
15:48Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel
15:52have been at a standstill since the expiration,
15:55on March 1, of the first phase of the truce.
16:02The strikes aimed at the leaders of the movement
16:04will not break our will.
16:06These are the words of Hamas,
16:08whose spokesman was killed by an Israeli strike.
16:12Yesterday, the day before, Israel threatened
16:14to seize new sectors of the Gaza Strip
16:17if the Palestinian movement did not release the last hostages
16:20held in the Palestinian territory,
16:22where the Israeli army resumed its offensive,
16:26attacks that have already cost the lives of more than 850 Gazans.
16:35The European allies of Ukraine
16:37are unanimously opposed to the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia.
16:42A decision has been announced at the end of the Paris Summit,
16:46which this Thursday brought together the so-called Voluntary Coalition
16:49in support of Ukraine.
16:51The leaders of about thirty European countries and NATO
16:54participated in this summit.
16:56The details with Rashid Farhan.
17:00In Paris, the allies of Ukraine have met
17:03in the hope of laying the foundations
17:05for a future peace agreement with Russia.
17:07Without waiting for American mediation to reach its end,
17:11most of the countries of the European Union and NATO
17:15wanted to move forward on security guarantees for Ukraine.
17:19At the end of this initiative,
17:22the Europeans called for maintaining pressure on Moscow
17:25through sanctions.
17:27In terms of short-term support for Ukraine,
17:29we have also acted unanimously.
17:33The fact that the time was not up to lifting the sanctions,
17:37whatever they are,
17:39and there could not be a policy of lifting the sanctions
17:41before peace was clearly established.
17:43The summit, bringing together about thirty countries,
17:46aims to provide short-term support
17:49and to discuss the deployment of a European reassurance force in Ukraine.
17:57We have just had a very constructive meeting,
18:00more support for Ukraine
18:02in order to ensure that it is in the strongest position,
18:05both now and in subsequent negotiations.
18:08What we have mentioned is how to strengthen the sanctions
18:11to support the American initiative
18:13aimed at bringing Russia back to the negotiating table
18:17thanks to an increased pressure from this group of countries.
18:24The allied countries of Ukraine
18:26have excluded all sanctions against Russia,
18:30considering, on the contrary, to strengthen them
18:32in order to accentuate the pressure on Moscow
18:35to compel it to peace negotiations.
18:40In the continent of Sudan,
18:43on the eve of the proclamation of the liberation of Khartoum
18:46by the regular army,
18:48the quick support forces respond and declare
18:51that there will be no retreat or surrender
18:54despite the losses in the Sudanese capital.
18:57The FSR claims to have repositioned their troops
19:00after the army's retake of the largest part of the capital.
19:04Yesterday evening, the commander of the army,
19:06Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,
19:08had declared Khartoum liberated from the presidential palace
19:11taken back a week ago by the FSR.
19:17In southern Sudan,
19:19the forces of President Salva Kiir
19:21have arrested his rival,
19:23the first vice-president, Riek Machar.
19:25In any case, according to his party,
19:28the UN is alarmed by the risk
19:30of seeing the country fall back into a generalized conflict.
19:33This development, which occurs after a day
19:36marked by shooting in Assyria,
19:38near Juba, the capital of the youngest state on the planet,
19:41leads to chronic instability
19:44after a bloody civil war
19:46between the forces of the two men.
19:48In Niger, General Abdel Rahman Thiani
19:51has been sworn in as President of the Republic
19:54for a five-year transition mandate
19:57after the promulgation of a refoundation charter.
20:00The point with our correspondent,
20:02Jean-Dibrid William.
20:04It is a new chapter that opens for Niger
20:07and for its head of state,
20:09the now General of the Army,
20:11Abdel Rahman Thiani,
20:13who has been sworn in as President of the Republic
20:16on March 26.
20:18Twenty months after his accession to power
20:20in favor of a military coup d'état,
20:22it is in the presence of civil,
20:24religious and military authorities,
20:26but also of diplomatic representation,
20:28that the new President of Niger
20:30was given the Grand Collier,
20:32symbol of the Supreme Magistrate.
20:34This is the Grand Collier
20:36of the President of the Republic.
20:39This is the Grand Collier
20:41of the President of the Republic.
20:51Excellency,
20:53Mr. President of the Republic,
20:56we recognize you
20:58as Grand Master
21:00of the National Orders of Niger.
21:03The ceremony, held this Wednesday,
21:05thus marks the entry into force
21:07of the National Assemblies
21:09held a few weeks ago,
21:11a rise in rank from Brigadier General
21:13to General of the Army
21:15for the new President of the Republic,
21:17and a period of transition
21:19fixed at 60 months.
21:21Immediately after these new achievements,
21:23the head of state also intended
21:25to sign a series of decrees
21:27implementing some popular demands.
21:29An ordinance relating to political parties.
21:32At the end of this ordinance,
21:34political parties are dissolved.
21:38The General of the Army,
21:40Abdirahman Tchani,
21:42orders the implementation
21:44of the recommendation
21:46of the National Assemblies
21:48for the refoundation
21:50relating to the release
21:52of certain persons
21:54from the army,
21:56civilians and military.
21:58These measures are part
22:00of the charter
22:02of the refoundation
22:04promulgated on March 26,
22:06which is now
22:08part of the
22:10classical approach
22:12of constitutional texts.
22:14It organizes
22:16the public authorities
22:18and sets the principles
22:20and values
22:22of the refoundation
22:24of our Republic.
22:26Focusing on patriotism,
22:28social cohesion and civility,
22:30the new charter of the refoundation
22:32provides, among other things,
22:34a pre-emptive response
22:36to any installation
22:38of foreign military bases
22:40in Nigeria,
22:42as well as several measures
22:44aimed at protecting
22:46the country's natural resources.
22:48To conclude,
22:50it was yesterday
22:52that the Night of Destiny
22:54was celebrated in the country
22:56between the Psalmody of the Holy Koran
22:58and religious causes.
23:00Our correspondents,
23:02attended the mosque of
23:04Mohamed VI of Abidjan.
23:08The Night of Destiny,
23:10or Laylatul Qadr in Arabic,
23:12is a special night
23:14of the month of Ramadan.
23:16Its high value for Muslims
23:18is inscribed in the Koran.
23:20Here, at the mosque
23:22of Mohamed VI of Abidjan,
23:24in favor of the most sacred
23:26night of the year,
23:28the message of Caliph Mustafa Sunta
23:30on the exaltation of Muslim faithful
23:32to continue the acts of charity
23:34and remain in prayer.
23:36The star of the present day
23:38under this highly spiritual darkness
23:40invites Muslim faithful
23:42to immerse themselves in Laylatul Qadr,
23:44one of the solemn moments
23:46of consecration to the Lord
23:48for the entire Muslim community.
23:50Today,
23:52when we pray, we are forgiven.
23:54When we make a large
23:56prayer, it is accepted
23:58and it extinguishes the anger of God.
24:00And when we make invocations,
24:02God listens to us
24:04and He accepts us.
24:06So this night is a great night,
24:08a special night,
24:10a night that has no equivalent.
24:12So when God
24:14values a night,
24:16we Muslims must be grateful to God.
24:18The Night of Destiny,
24:20one of the last ten nights of Ramadan,
24:22is an opportunity for faithful Muslims
24:24to gather in this evening
24:26of testimony, greatness,
24:28love and recognition of Allah.
24:30We came to the Night of Destiny
24:32to be able to enjoy
24:34the merits of this night
24:36which is worth 83 years
24:38of worship, 4 months.
24:40And we still had to come
24:42to be among the children of God.
24:44The Night of Destiny is a night,
24:46a wonderful night
24:48that God gave to all Muslims
24:50all over the world, to the Prophet Muhammad,
24:52peace be upon him, and we thank Allah
24:54for this grace that He gave us.
24:56And through this night, God forgives
24:58our sins and really gives us,
25:00as I said, His grace.
25:02The night of exorcism,
25:04where sins are forgiven,
25:06night of grace and blessing,
25:08the Night of Destiny corresponds
25:10to founding events,
25:12including the revelation of the Qur'an
25:14to the Prophet Muhammad by the Archangel Gabriel,
25:16which finally
25:18has a special status for Islam.
25:20We will arrive at the end of this edition.
25:22Thank you for following the information.
25:24We will continue on Media TV.