In preparation for the upcoming visit of Emmanuel Macron to Morocco, Catherine Colona, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expected in Rabat to prepare this official visit of the French president.
Two months after the departure of Hélène Le Gal, the new French ambassador has been appointed. It is Christophe Lecourtier who will take up his duties after approval by Rabat.
France will have to appoint a new diplomat to head its embassy in Morocco. Hélène Le Gal is leaving the kingdom at the end of this month.
France has provided financing of 200 million euros to Morocco, to support the generalization of compulsory Health Insurance.
The French Ambassador to Morocco, Hélène Le Gal, described the situation between Morocco and Algeria as "very regrettable".
Hammou Moussik, a 103-year-old Moroccan goumier and officer of the Legion of Honor since 2013, will be "celebrated" this Saturday, the commemorative day of May 8, 1945, marking the Allied victory over Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
France, through its ambassador Hélène Le Gal in Rabat, has welcomed the efforts of the kingdom in its management of the health crisis due to Covid-19 and at the same time affirmed its determination to work for the strengthening of the friendship and cooperation relations between the two countries.
Moroccan ambassador Hélène Le Gal said that Chakib Benmoussa, president of the Special Commission for a New Development Model, and also Morocco’s ambassador to France, had presented her with a progress report on the commission’s work. A presentation that was supposed to be made to King Mohammed VI .
Formerly posted to the French Diplomatic Representation in Israel, Hélène Le Gal is the new Ambassador of her country to Morocco. She thus becomes the first French diplomat to hold this position in the Alaouite Kingdom.
She is the first woman to become French ambassador to Morocco and she, Hélène Le Gal, should take up her duties next September. She has been ambassador of France in Israel since September 2016.