French Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné is set to visit Morocco on February 25, where he will meet with his counterpart Nasser Bourita to discuss the Euro-Moroccan partnership, Sahel issues, and a potential visit by Emmanuel Macron, French media reported.
Séjourné’s visit comes after two years of strained relations as recent developments suggest a thaw in Franco-Moroccan ties and a potential visit by the president of the republic o
Despite two previous visits by Macron for specific purposes, he has never made an official state visit, largely due to tensions between the two countries from 2021 to 2023.
Earlier this month French Ambassador to Morocco Christophe LeCourtier said that relations between France and Morocco “should be renewed,” and that relying on close common history and traditional positive ties alone would be arrogant, as crises will not resolve themselves.
In a lecture on Morocco-France relations organized by the Center for Legal, Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences in Casablanca on Friday, the French ambassador said that the Kingdom has “changed for the better” in the last two decades, but this has not been accompanied by a change of perception on the French side.
“We French have lost a little bit more knowledge and intimacy with Morocco than Morocco has with France.”
“The world has changed tremendously, and there is a lot around you and us, not just relations between both countries, and France has also changed (…), but I prefer to see the glass half full in France.”
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