Colombia appoints a new ambassador to Morocco

The Republic of Colombia appointed, Tuesday, 2 April, diplomat and lawyer Maria del Pilar Gomez Valderrama as the country’s Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Morocco.

The new ambassador has taken oath before Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez, the Colombian Foreign Affairs Ministry said on its website.

Maria del Pilar Gómez Valderrama worked as consul general of Colombia in Brussels. She has worked as a diplomatic official at the Colombian Embassy in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Caracas and in Venezuela, the same source added.

Colombian diplomacy recalls that Colombia and Morocco established diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979. Colombia opened its embassy in Rabat in 1990, which was closed between 2002 and 2013.

Morocco and Colombia re-established diplomatic in 2019. On February 27, 1985, Colombia recognized «SADR» before it withdrew, in December 2000, its recognition of the Polisario Front entity.