{"id":4487,"date":"2021-01-14T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2021-01-14T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:22:22","slug":"egypt-denies-plans-to-join-states-opening-western-saharan-consulates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2021\/01\/14\/egypt-denies-plans-to-join-states-opening-western-saharan-consulates\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt denies plans to join states opening Western Saharan consulates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/12\/egypt-open-consulate-western-sahara-morocco-polisario.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/12\/egypt-open-consulate-western-sahara-morocco-polisario.html\">https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/12\/egypt-open-consulate-western-sahara-morocco-polisario.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Moroccan news source announced on December 21st that Egypt plans to open a consulate in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The news source reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was going to send Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, with the intention of beginning talks about opening an Egyptian consulate in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rakha Hassan, who sits on the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, disputed the news claim and said that Egypt will not be opening a consulate in Rabat. He also stated that Egypt will not recognize any type of Moroccan sovereign control over Western Sahara.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt has stronger connections with Algeria than Morocco. Algeria supports the Polisario Front, so Egypt likely fears it might lose or weaken its relationship with Algeria if it decides to recognize Moroccan sovereign control over the disputed territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US recently recognized Moroccan sovereign control of the region in return for Morocco agreeing to normalize relations with Israel. A few other countries have also recently sided with Morocco, and the regional conflict is trending in favor of Moroccan rule. This has weakened Polisario\u2019s chance for the UN to decide anything in its favor since regional countries are beginning to unit behind Morocco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt\u2019s actions can be seen through the liberal perspective because it\u2019s not directly in its national interest to support Polisario, a small rebel group. In doing so, Egypt runs the risk of alienating the other countries who chose to recognize Morocco. Egypt is setting aside its own short-term interest to help the rebel group in the long run.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt\u2019s actions can be seen through the realist perspective because it is Egypt\u2019s national interest to support Algeria, one of its allies. Egypt is acting in its own national interest by preserving its relationship with Algeria as opposed to recognizing Morocco but subsequently losing Alegria as an ally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to article: https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/12\/egypt-open-consulate-western-sahara-morocco-polisario.html A Moroccan news source announced on December 21st that Egypt plans to open a consulate in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The news source reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was going to send Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, with the intention of beginning talks about opening an Egyptian&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2021\/01\/14\/egypt-denies-plans-to-join-states-opening-western-saharan-consulates\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}