In Kenya, Morocco can count on the Senate. Senators have urged the government to open an embassy in Morocco to mend ties with the Kingdom. The question of withdrawing recognition of the so-called “SADR” remains however exclusively in the hands of the Kenyan government.
Nominated in 2017 by President Donald Trump to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Kingdom of Morocco, David T. Fischer has finally been confirmed by the Senate.
Nominated twice by President Donald Trump, the United States ambassador to Morocco David Fischer has waited 586 days to get confirmed by the Senate. This delay is dubbed unprecedented, especially as previous American ambassadors to the Kingdom waited on average three months.
The US embassy in Morocco has been without an ambassador since 2017. The US Senators have not confirmed yet the nomination of American businessman David T. Fischer, who was named by Donald Trump as the US new ambassador to Morocco two years ago.
After the US House of Representatives passed a bill that treats Western Sahara as a «sovereign entity», pro-Polisario lobbyists in the Senate took the lead, stressing that they would endorse MPs’ will to exclude the Saharan provinces from economic assistance granted to the Kingdom.