King Hassan II, of Morocco, who was host to U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers in Rabat yesterday, has placed his country squarely behind El Fatah, the Palestinian guerrilla organization. In an interview published today in the newspaper Le Monde, King Hassan declared that Morocco would “stand by El Fatah and become its spokesman.”
He hailed the guerrilla force as an “organization that has succeeded in uniting most if not all of the Palestinian resistance movement.” He said Morocco supported El Fatah’s aim of a bi-national Palestinian state consisting of all “Palestinian-born” citizens “speaking the same language.” According to the King, “no Arab leader will sign peace as long as the Palestinian problem is still pending.”
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