{"id":39,"date":"2025-11-07T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdi_6_c4c"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:39:49","slug":"simo-i-hosted-the-paraguayan-ambassador-and-served-him-bissara-and-he-loudly-declared-that-the-sahara-is-moroccan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/simo-i-hosted-the-paraguayan-ambassador-and-served-him-bissara-and-he-loudly-declared-that-the-sahara-is-moroccan\/","title":{"rendered":"Simo: \u201cI hosted the Paraguayan ambassador and served him \u2018bissara\u2019\u2026 and he loudly declared that the Sahara is Moroccan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2545\" data-end=\"2946\">A statement by MP Mohammed Simo during a meeting of the Tourism Committee in Parliament has sparked wide controversy. By recounting that he hosted the Paraguayan ambassador in his home and served him <em data-start=\"2757\" data-end=\"2766\">bissara<\/em>, after which the ambassador expressed support for Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over the Sahara, the MP appeared to reduce a strategic diplomatic issue to a personal hospitality anecdote.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x2lah0s x193iq5w xf7dkkf xv54qhq x1k70j0n xzueoph xzboxd6 x14l7nz5\">\r\n<div class=\"x6s0dn4 xal61yo x1obq294 x5a5i1n xde0f50 x15x8krk x78zum5 xdt5ytf x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6 xh8yej3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"xl1xv1r\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1169418611286138%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x2lah0s x193iq5w xuk3077 xf7dkkf xv54qhq x1k70j0n xzueoph xzboxd6 x14l7nz5\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2948\" data-end=\"3415\">While the story may seem harmless, its political implications are significant. The Sahara issue is one of Morocco\u2019s most sensitive foreign policy priorities, managed systematically by state institutions under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, and recently strengthened by UN Security Council Resolution 2797. Simo\u2019s narrative suggests that diplomatic achievements result from private relations, whereas they are the outcome of structured, long-term state diplomacy.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3417\" data-end=\"3734\">This has revived debate over the quality of political discourse among some elected officials, and their awareness of the weight of their words when addressing matters of national interest. Foreign policy requires knowledge, precision, and coordinated institutional action; it cannot be treated as casual storytelling.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3736\" data-end=\"3981\">Critics also recalled earlier statements by Simo in which he admitted he did not understand French, raising broader questions about the training and competency of certain elected officials to carry out legislative or diplomatic responsibilities.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3983\" data-end=\"4233\">Thus, the issue goes beyond a single statement. It points to a deeper structural challenge in the production and selection of political elites, and to the need for representatives capable of defending national causes with seriousness and credibility.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement by MP Mohammed Simo during a meeting of the Tourism Committee in Parliament has sparked wide controversy. By recounting that he hosted the Paraguayan ambassador in his home and served him bissara, after which the ambassador expressed support for Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over the Sahara, the MP appeared to reduce a strategic diplomatic issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-architecture","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.13emregion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}