KING HASSAN'S OBSERVATIONS ON OIC SUMMIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000300470016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 14, 1984
• Content Type: CABLE

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R 132049Z JAN 84
FM AMEMBASSY RABAT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1600
INFO RUEHVV/ISLAMIC CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE
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TAGS: AORC, OIC, PREL, MO
SUBJECT: KING HASSAN'S OBSERVATIONS ON OIC SUMMIT
2. SUMMARY: MOROCCO'S KING HASSAN II RECEIVED 8-MEMBER
CODEL IN CASABLANCA ON JANUARY 12 LED BY CONGRESSMAN
LANTCS OF CALIFORNIA AND WINN OF KANSAS. THE CODEL WAS
RECEIVED IN THE NEW CONGRESS WING OF THE ROYAL PALACE
IN CASABLANCA WHERE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC
CONFERENCE SUMMIT WILL BE HELD BEGINNING JANUARY 16.
THE KING'S WILLINGNESS TO TAKE TIME OUT ON THE FIRST
DAY OF THE OIC FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING WAS AN
IMPORTANT INDICATION OF HASSAN'S DESIRE TO MAINTAN
GOOD COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE CONGRESS. THIS CABLE
REPORTS KING'S REMARKS PERTAINING TO THE SUMMIT. END
SUMMARY.
3. WHEN QUESTIONED BY CODEL MEMBERS ON PROSPECTS FOR
THE OIC SUMMIT, THE KING RESPONDED THAT IT WILL BE CNE
OF THE MOST DIFFICULT EVER HELD. HE POINTED OUT THAT
THE OIC WAS NOT CREATED TO BE A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
BUT RATHER TO FOCUS ON CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
GOALS WHICH ARE OF TRADITIONAL CONCERN TO THE MUSLIM
NATIONS. BUT, HE ADDED, THIS CONFERENCE IS FULL OF
POLITICAL PROBLEMS. KING HASSAN SAID THAT HE WAS
ASHAMED TO ADMIT THAT HE WAS COUNTING VERY MUCH ON THE
ASIAN AND AFRICAN MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE TO
HELP THE ARAB MEMBERS EXERCISE WISDOM. WHEN QUESTIONED
SPECIFICALLY AS TO WHAT THE CONFERENCE COULD ACHIEVE
WITH RESPECT TC THE IRAN/IRAQ CONFLICT, HASSAN STATED
THAT IT WOULD BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE TO PRODUCE A ONE-SIDED
RESOLUTION. HE SAID THAT THE CONFERENCE MUST MAINTAIN
AN EVEN HANDED APPROACH TO THE ISSUES IN ORDER TO BE
OF FUTURE SERVICE IN HELPING TO RESOLVE THE DISPUTE.
4. DURING THE COURSE OF HIS REMARKS ON THE MIDDLE
EAST THE KING STATED SPECIFICALLY THAT PLO LEADER
ARAFAT AND JORDAN'S KING HUSSEIN WOULD MEET DURING THE
OIC SUMMIT AND THAT IT WOULD BE A WORKING SESSION,
NOT JUST A PROTOCOLARY MEETING. IF THE KING WAS IN
ANY DOUBT OF HUSSEIN'S ATTENDANCE HE DID NOT SHOW IT.
(COMMENT: THE OFFICIAL MOROCCAN PRESS ANNOUNCED ONLY
ON JANUARY 13 THAT KING HUSSEIN WOULD BE REPRESENTED
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AT THE SUMMIT BY CROWN PRINCE HASSAN. END COMMENT.)
HE REITERATED HIS BELIEF THAT THE PALESTINIANS AND THE
JORDANIANS CAN COOPERATE AND THAT ARAFAT RECOGNIZES
THE KING'S PRIMACY IN THIS RELATIONSHIP.
5. THE KING'S ATTENTION TO THE CODEL ON THE DAY THAT
THE MINISTERIAL MEETING OF THE OIC OPENED IN RABAT IS
A PARTICULARLY STRONG REMINDER OF MOROCCO'S DESIRE
TO KEEP OPEN ITS RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES AND
THE FREE WORLD IN GENERAL. HASSAN SPENT AN HOUR AND
A HALF IN DIRECT DIALOGUE WITH THE CODEL, AND A MAJOR
PORTION OF THE MOROCCAN CABINET SPENT AN ADDITIONAL
FOUR HOURS WITH THE CONGRESSMEN DURING THE DAY. THE
KING HIMSELF CONDUCTED A GUIDED TOUR OF THE CONFERENCE
SITE FOR THE CODEL MEMBERS BEFORE BIDDING THEM FAREWELL.
REED
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