Clinton Announces Visit to Morocco, Tunisia, and UAE

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The State Department has announced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s plans to travel to Morocco, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates later this month. Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation at the Friends of the Syrian People meeting in Marrakesh on December 12, where she is expected designate a Syrian rebel group with reported ties to al-Qaeda as a terrorist organization in the hopes of decreasing the influence of extremists with the Syrian opposition. After Morocco, Clinton will then travel to Tunisia to co-host the 9th Forum for the Future Ministerial with the Tunisian government on December 13, and will finish her trip by attending a global counter-terrorism forum in the United Arab Emirates on December 14.