Morocco’s foreign affairs minister, Nasser Bourita said today a French decision to cut half of the visas issued for Moroccans is “unjustified.”
“Morocco has always dealt with the issue of migration and the movement of individuals with the logic of responsibility and the necessary balance,” said Bourita on the sidelines of the press conference he held with the Mauritanian Foreign Minister on Tuesday morning.
“Morocco deals strictly with persons in an illegal situation,” he said.
The new Paris decision will deprive 150,000 Moroccans from visiting France.
The French decision aims to pressure Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian governments to take back migrants ordered to leave French territory.
“It is an unprecedented decision, but it is a necessary decision because these countries do not accept to take back nationals that we do not want and cannot keep in France,” said spokesperson of the government Gabriel Attal on Europe 1 radio.
In January this year, the French Ministry of the Interior revealed that Moroccan citizens were the first to benefit the most from the Schengen Visas issued by authorities in France during 2020, with 98,627 Schengen visas.
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