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News: Headlines from the Moroccan Press: Thursday, September 20, 2018

AL BAYANE
Opening of the 73rd UN General Assembly: The Marrakech Conference on Migration in the Background: "It is now a proven fact and a globally shared conviction: migration is one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and more particularly the United Nations of the twenty-first century. To date, there are 244 million migrants in the world. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd session of the General Assembly, recalled this challenge in her opening address at the meeting in New York last Tuesday..."

Morocco - United States: Intense activities of Nasser Bourita in Washington: "Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Nasser Bourita met with prominent senators Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Todd Young in Washington on Tuesday in the presence of His Majesty's Ambassador to Washington, Lalla Joumala Alaoui. In a statement to MAP, Mr. Bourita said that these talks are part of "maintaining contacts with influential members of the Senate, particularly with regard to financial and military cooperation, but also with regard to the national question"..."


AUJOURD'HUI LE MAROC
CGEM will hold a board of directors: The action plans of the commissions validated next Monday: "This meeting, scheduled for Monday, September 24, will mark the start of the confederation under the chairmanship of Salaheddine Mezouar. Last July, the Confederation's Board of Directors voted to set up 23 permanent thematic committees and set up its Bureau. A total of 7 Vice-Presidents were appointed by the Board. These are Dounia Taarji, Hakim Abdelmoumen, Khalid Benjelloun, Tarafa Marouane, Ahmed Rahhou, Mohamed Talal, and Mehdi Tazi who will play an operational role and will be responsible for monitoring the main lines of the mandate..."

Two bills presented in committee to parliament: Land grabbing: Aujjar's recipe: "Another boost in the fight against land grabbing. The Minister of Justice, Mohamed Aujjar, thus seems to be putting the turbo in for the adoption of new bills designed to tighten the clamp around the spoliators. In this sense, the person in charge has just presented the two bills No. 32.18 and No. 33.18 to the Committee on Justice, Legislation, and Human Rights to the House of Representatives..."


LE MATIN DU SAHARA
Fishery products: The certification of catches and traceability control will soon be digitized: "The Maritime Fisheries Department is working on a digital device for the certification of catches and the control of the traceability of fisheries resources. The objective is to strengthen control along the entire value chain for safer access to national and international markets, while combating illegal fishing..."

Morocco chairs the 7th extraordinary session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment: Nezha El Ouafi: "We must win the battle of action": ""The battle for ideas is won, because few people still dispute the issue of climate change, but it is not enough to win the battle for ideas, we must win the battle for action," said the Secretary of State for Sustainable Development at the opening of the seventh special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment..."


LES INSPIRATIONS ÉCO
Waste: Médiouna landfill site. Civil society refuses the installation of incinerators: "AMCDD and its partners do not want this option for the management of waste from the Médiouna landfill. In their view, the city council should avoid choosing a delegate to build incinerators..."

Pilot training. A Jordanian academy opens a school: "The Royal Jordanian Air Academy (RJAA) inaugurated its new school on Tuesday, September 18, at Benslimane Airport. The training center for pilots and maintenance technicians should make it possible to meet the ongoing needs of the African market. More than $6 million has been committed to this project..."


L'ECONOMISTE
Tax audit: The DGI shields the procedure: "The DGI has just sent a memorandum to its auditors to remind them of the essential conditions of the tax audit. The aim of the approach is to avoid defects in form that could affect its action. Over the course of the finance laws, the legislator has reframed the operating mode by introducing safeguards to protect the interests of both the taxpayer and the Treasury..."

Unpaid wages, strike action: "Fewer strikes, fewer working days lost in the first half of the year... The analysis of the causes of collective labor disputes refers in particular to non-payment or late payment of wages. The end of the month is becoming structurally difficult for SMEs, especially in a context of deteriorating cash flow due to the continuous deterioration of payment delays..."


LIBERATION
Under the complicit and confused eye of the Algiers junta: Polisarian puppets get bogged down in cases that are far too compromising: "Separatist militias have just violated freedom of expression by arresting facebooker Mahmud Zedan on Tuesday. Even if they claim that this arrest is the result of complaints against him, the truth is that they are frustrated by the criticisms of this blogger who denounced the Polisario's corruption, crimes, and abuses. For example, on August 28, he wrote on his Facebook page the following: "The good cannot come from the leaders who have been appointed in darkness"..."

Moroccan-British talks in the House of Representatives: Habib El Malki: Security and stability in the world depend on the preservation of the territorial integrity of States: "The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki, stressed in talks with a British parliamentary delegation in Rabat on Tuesday that security and stability in the world depend on the preservation of the territorial integrity of states. He also highlighted the responsibilities of all to preserve the territorial integrity of States, in order to ensure security and stability in a context of globalization that has had both positive and negative repercussions on a number of countries..."