Jan. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, participated together this Saturday in the reopening of the Moroccan Embassy in Baghdad, after 18 years of inactivity.
The embassy closed its doors in 2005 and was transferred to Jordan due to the “deterioration of security conditions” in Iraq, according to the Moroccan government.
It should be remembered that, in the autumn of 2005, two Moroccan employees of the Embassy were kidnapped by the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, before being confirmed as missing, in a tragedy that caused great commotion in the Alaouite kingdom.
Bourita’s arrival is also the first visit by a Moroccan Foreign Minister in 25 years, recalled his Iraqi counterpart, who has expressed his intention to visit Morocco in May to stimulate bilateral relations.
Bourita considered the opening of the embassy in Baghdad as “a historic event”, which ratifies his country’s support for the sovereignty and stability of Iraq, in statements collected by the official Iraqi news agency INA.
