Morocco

- Morocco is a state located in the far west of the capital Rabat, North Africa and the largest city of Casablanca, which is considered the economic capital, and the most important cities: Salé, Fez, Marrakech, Meknes, Tangiers and Agadir, Safi and Lausanne, Tetouan, Oujda and Settat. Morocco overlooking the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west flanking the Strait of Gibraltar; bordered to the east of Algeria (on a dispute over the Moroccan border with Algeria) and the south of Mauritania. [10] In the maritime tape narrow interval between Morocco and Spain three Moktnvat Spanish are Ceuta and Melilla and rock Comair. [ 10]

Morocco UN member since 1956 and the League of Arab States since 1958 and the International Olympic Committee since 1959 and the Organization of the Islamic Conference since 1969, the International Organization of La Francophonie since 1981, and the Arab Maghreb Union since 1989 and the group's Mediterranean Dialogue since 1995 and a Seventy-seven since 2003, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Prime abroad since 2004 , then the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008. as recently Morocco was elected a member of a new non-permanent Security Council of the United Nations to extend the mandate for two years, starting with the Light in January 2012 until December 2013.

Morocco is the only African country that is not a member of the African Union, which replaced the Organization of African Unity, Morocco withdrew in 1984 because of its refusal to recognize its sovereignty over Western Sahara, but it has a special place in the Union to benefit from the services offered by the EU countries, which, as a group of African Bank development. [11] the 2008 EU grants Morocco's advanced status in the partnership and neighborhood agreements which can Morocco to participate in some of the European agencies. [12] as Morocco has agreed to join gradually to the Gulf cooperation Council after an invitation to join in 2011. [13]

Morocco with a parliamentary constitutional monarchy parliament is elected the state. Parliamentary elections in 2011 were monitored by international observers for the second time in Morocco, [14] However, the turnout was 45.44% of the total electorate, [15] Alrabhan main in this election are the Justice and Development Party and the Independence Party, both conservative parties, as the opposition has achieved represented in the Socialist Union of popular forces, a socialist as well as a modest increase in the number of deputies to the National Rally of Independents party, a leftist party. In November 25, 2011 filled Abdelilah Benkirane of the Justice and Development Party as prime minister of the Kingdom of Morocco.