Morocco recognizes USA - halts pirate attacks
12/20/1777 AD decreed
Sultan Mohammed III of Morocco issues a declaration recognizing America as an independent country, and stating that American merchant ships could enjoy safe passage into the Mediterranean and along the coast. This was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United States
During the American Revolution the pirates attacked American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean.
The relations were formalized with the Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship signed in 1786, which stands as the U.S.'s oldest non-broken friendship treaty[8][9] with a foreign power
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