During an official visit to Morocco, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani officially reopened Syria’s embassy in Morocco this Thursday in Rabat, after it had been closed since 2012.
The head of Syrian diplomacy, Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani, accompanied by his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, presided over the reopening ceremony of the Syrian embassy on Thursday, May 14. The embassy has retained its former premises in the Souissi district of Rabat.
Morocco had closed its embassy in Damascus and requested the closure of the Syrian embassy in Rabat in 2012, in line with Morocco’s official position at the time, the Foreign Ministry had stated.
In Rabat, the reopening of Syria’s diplomatic mission came after bilateral talks dominated by the two ministers’ expressed desire to revive and accelerate cooperation between Morocco and Syria.
Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani’s visit to Morocco, his first since his appointment to the position in December 2024, is intended to open a new chapter in the political and economic relations between the two countries and to present the new political direction of the Syrian authorities on a range of regional and international issues, including the Middle East, the Gulf region, and the Maghreb.
