Criticism
The term Arab Maghreb Union is considered Arab-centric, as it does not recognize the Berber population present in all five nations. In fact, in February 2012, the Moroccan foreign minister Saâdeddine El Othmani proposed to remove the term "Arab" and call it the "Maghreb Union", a proposal which was rejected by all the states except Morocco and Mauritania.
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