Morocco to Appoint Veteran Diplomat as Head of Liaison Office in Israel

This 58-year-old career diplomat, three times Consul General of Morocco in London, Amsterdam and New York, has been for the past three years the head of the Latin America and Caribbean division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports Le360, adding that an official from this ministry presents him as "a professional diplomat, rigorous in his work and cultivated".

He will take office a few weeks after his Israeli counterpart, David Govrin, former ambassador of the State of Israel to Egypt, who is already on Moroccan soil where he has started the activities of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat.

The opening of liaison offices in Rabat and Tel Aviv, as well as a gradual resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries, are included in the tripartite Morocco-USA-Israel declaration, signed in Rabat on December 22, 2020, under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI, the media recalls, stressing that a team of Moroccan technicians is in Tel Aviv to prepare the opening of the Moroccan liaison office.