Saudi Crown Prince’s Moroccan Visit Signals Diplomatic Thaw

The Saudi crown prince is accompanied by the former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, as part of this private visit. Mohammed bin Salman visited Rabat and Marrakech.

Previously, relations between Morocco and Saudi Arabia were tense due to Rabat’s neutrality in the crisis "which had pitted Riyadh as well as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain against their Qatari neighbor." But December 2021 will fortunately mark the warming of these relations, facilitated by the support of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - created at the initiative of Saudi Arabia in 1981 - for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara.

Long before the prince, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud used to spend a good part of his vacations in Tangier, in the north of the country.