Morocco's Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri told MAP at the end of the meeting that the Moroccan delegation expressed "its disappointment with the current situation of relations between Morocco and Algeria," because of the closing of borders and the absence of a full normalization due to the new conditions relating to the Sahara issue.
    In this regard, the minister said "this situation has negative repercussions, not only on relations between the two countries and the two brotherly, neighbouring peoples, but also on the fulfillment of their aspirations for the building of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)."
   Fassi Fihri said at the opening of the meeting that the partnerships that the countries of the AMU (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) are seeking to establish with regional groupings, are doomed to failure unless relations among all Member States of the AMU are fully normalized.
    He stressed that these partnerships can only succeed by overcoming unrealistic conditions relating to regional disputes that hamper the Maghreb Union.