On Monday, a letter was leaked in which Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita suggested to his prime minister that all Morocco government offices suspend their relationship with the German embassy in the capital, Rabat, as well as with other German cultural and political organizations in the country. Bourita said this was necessary because of “deep misunderstandings” on “issues fundamental for Morocco.” The foreign minister said that his ministry had already suspended contact with German diplomatic representation in Rabat. Germany’s embassy is in the Moroccan capital and it has two consulates in Casablanca and Agadir. Although there has been no official German government statement on the matter, the word from Berlin is that the German government sees no reason to disrupt the two nations’ good relationship like this. The Moroccan ambassador had been invited to come to the German Foreign Office urgently and explain the letter, insiders said. Deliberate leak As one source, working at a German cultural organization based in Rabat, told DW, the foreign minister’s proposal seemed “to be a very deliberate leak.” The source could not be named because of the sensitivity of the current political situation. On Tuesday, it was still unclear how the developing diplomatic stoush would… Read full this story
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