The embellishment of relations between Morocco and Germany is confirmed and consolidated day following day. Visiting the Kingdom for the first time on August 24 and 25, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that Rabat represents an “important” partner for her country but also for the European Union (EU), and also constitutes a “bridge” to North Africa and the south of the continent.
In a statement published on its website, German diplomacy adds that “relations between Germany and Morocco are not only close between the two governments, but also between hundreds of thousands of people in the two countries”.
These comments come the day following Annalena Baerbock’s declaration, following her meeting with her Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, in which she assured that Germany “considers the autonomy plan presented in 2007 as a serious effort and credibility of Morocco and as a good basis for a solution accepted” by the parties.
Outputs that are part of the reconciliation between Rabat and Berlin, started since the beginning of the current year, and sealed last February when the heads of diplomacy of the two countries had reached an agreement, in a videoconference, to deepen the traditionally close and broad relations between the two countries.
As a reminder, in March 2021, Morocco had suspended its relations with Germany for several reasons, in particular linked to the former positions of this European country in the Moroccan Sahara file. Indeed, Berlin had requested a meeting of the Security Council in response to the recognition, in December 2020, of the United States of the sovereignty of the Kingdom over its southern provinces. This diplomatic quarrel had lasted several months before an exchange of messages between King Mohammed VI and the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in January 2022, put an end to it and launched the thaw in relations between the two countries.
