While 22 climate conference in full swing, the summit of the "African action," according to its organizers, will "give new impetus" to the fight against global warming and the "construction of a development model sustainable "in the continent.
For King Mohammed VI, who hosted on Tuesday in Marrakech nearly 180 heads of State and Ministers, the COP22 is "a milestone in the implementation process of the historical Paris Agreement" signed on the climate last year.
To the South, particularly exposed to global warming, it is now able to "benefit? Urgent financial and technical support" to "build capacity and adapt to climate change."
To mobilize $ 100 billion by 2020
And get developed countries to honor their promise to mobilize hundred billion dollars by 2020 for the benefit of developing countries, warned the sovereign.
The countries of the continent must also ensure that "the involvement of all" in the transfer of technology, "Research and innovation in the field of climate."
For this, the summit will be an opportunity for African countries "to co-ordinate and speak with one voice to defend their positions," according to a Moroccan diplomatic source highly placed.
Thirty heads of state attended the event, including traditional allies of the kingdom south of the Sahara (Senegal, Gabon, Ivory Coast ...), countries with close relations with Rabat and the Nigerian Muhammadu Buhari.
The East Africa will be represented by the Kenyan Uhuru Kenyatta and Paul Kagame, which displays the last six months its proximity Mohammed VI. Note the absence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, initially announced. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), will be present.
French President Francois Hollande is expected to speak at the summit.
Also on the climate, the summit is for the Moroccan host the opportunity to sell its Triple A initiative for African agriculture, based in part on increased land fertility, while the country - with its important phosphate reserves - is one of the leading producers of fertilizers in the world.
UA lens
But the key issue for the Kingdom is primarily diplomatic. By bringing together a bevy of African leaders on its soil, Morocco intends to demonstrate its strong commitment to Africa, now at the heart of its diplomacy. With the main issue the question of Western Sahara, and as a short term goal reintegration of Morocco within the AU.
Mohammed VI chains in recent months diplomatic touring the continent, not only in its traditional area of West African influence or his friend Gabonese President Ali Bongo. He returned from a long tour in Rwanda and Tanzania, and is scheduled to visit Addis Ababa after COP22.
symbolic gesture, he delivered his traditional Throne Speech November 6 from Dakar, proclaiming that "Morocco is back to regain its natural place" in Africa. Moroccan diplomacy, which has recently undergone a major redevelopment, now intends to exercise its influence on the continent.
The stated objective is to rally the maximum support on the question of Western Sahara, former Spanish colony controlled since 1975 by Rabat, which the Polisario Front, supported by Algeria, wants independence.
For now, this is the reinstatement of Morocco within the AU, an organization that Rabat had left in 1984 in protest against the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) of the Polisario Front.
This return, announced in mid-July by Mohammed VI and whose application has been officially formalized in September now leads to a deaf struggle for influence with the Algerian rival, always around the Sahara issue.
It must be officially recorded by a vote, and a number of issues under discussion, as the name of the future president of the AU Commission (executive body), could influence the outcome decisively, so that the next summit of AU is expected early 2016 in Addis Ababa.
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