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Lapid plans to visit Morocco in early August and inaugurate the Israeli delegation
Lapid will be the first Israeli minister to visit Morocco since the resumption of relations in December.
Israel and Morocco are negotiating to complete the process of normalization and upgrade the representative offices in Rabat and Tel Aviv to full embassies. The extent of morbidity in Israel and Morocco may affect the visit
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Yair Lapid
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Sunday, 18 July 2021, 17:38
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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid plans to visit Rabat, the capital of Morocco, in early August to inaugurate the Israeli diplomatic mission in the country. Israeli sources told Walla! Because Lapid concluded the visit in a telephone conversation that took place on Friday with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Burita. However, changes in the extent of morbidity in Corona in Israel and Morocco may affect the visit.
This will be the first visit by an Israeli minister to Morocco since the resumption of relations between the two countries in December 2020. Relations were renewed as part of a tripartite deal in which the Trump administration agreed to recognize the Western Sahara controversy as part of Morocco. However, the agreement signed did not include a renewal of diplomatic relations between the countries at the highest level.
The Moroccan government has agreed that the agreement will include the opening of diplomatic representation offices only in Rabat and Tel Aviv and not full embassies.
However, after the signing of the agreement, the King of Morocco, Muhammad VI, said in a telephone conversation with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that opening embassies would be "the next natural step."
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His office declined to comment.
Lapid in Abu Dhabi (Photo: Government Press Office, Shlomi Amsalem)
The Moroccans were very worried that the Biden administration would reverse the decision of former United States President Donald Trump on the Sahara. By refraining from opening the Moroccan embassies wanted to keep in their hands bargaining cards through which they could persuade the new administration not to back down from the previous policy.
As published in Walla! A few months ago, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced to his Moroccan counterpart Burita that the United States would not change Trump's decision on the Sahara at this stage. Price also publicly confirmed the remarks last week.In
light of the American position, the Moroccans are considering completing the normalization process with Israel in the coming weeks and upgrading the diplomatic representation offices to the rank of embassies for everything.Last week when he visited Brussels and addressed EU foreign ministers Coming soon will open in Morocco "embassy".
The corona may affect the visit. Departure of the Israeli delegation to Morocco, December (Photo: Official website, Sivan Faraj)
Israeli sources point out that Lapid did not err in his language and that behind this statement are negotiations taking place between Israel and Morocco on the possibility of upgrading relations and turning the representative offices into embassies, possibly already during Lapid's visit to Rabat.
Relations with Morocco have accelerated in recent weeks. Foreign Ministry Director General Alon Ushpiz visited Morocco about two weeks ago, met with Foreign Minister Burita and gave him an official invitation to visit Israel. A Moroccan Air Force plane had landed in Israel a few days earlier for the first time in 30 years. participate in international counter-terrorism drill held in Israel.
last week he visited Rabat cyber Protection Authority chairman Yigal Una and signed the first cooperation agreement with Moroccan counterparts. In the coming weeks are expected to start direct flights of airlines between Israeli and Moroccan Casablanca and Rabat Ben Gurion airport.
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