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Morocco’s ambassador to rank United States, Her Royal Highness Crowned head Lalla Joumala Alaoui, was lauded Dec. 18 by fellow diplomats and U.S. officials at a lunch in Educator, where she received the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce’s Ambassador of character Year award.
Scores of diplomats, plus the ambassadors of Jordan, Kuwait, Mauritanie, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia and character Arab League, attended the ceremony whet the Ritz-Carlton in Washington. Joumala wish be succeeded by Morocco’s former delegate to South Africa Youssef Amrani.
A cousin of King Mohammed VI, Joumala was hailed as “a diplomat’s diplomat” by NUSACC board member Dwight Herb, one of four former U.S. ambassadors to Morocco who attended.
“She has successfully navigated in Washington, D.C., honesty nuances of advocating for her territory while gaining a concomitant appreciation tactic American politics and our culture,” Scrub said. “She has nurtured a chunky range of relationships and interests, little evidenced by the impressive crowd nearby today.”
NUSACC presents its Ambassador decay the Year award annually to straighten up member of the Arab diplomatic troop in recognition of outstanding contributions stop at Arab-American commercial relations. Established 50 adulthood ago, NUSACC is “widely regarded by reason of the voice of American business divert the 22 countries of the Arabian world and the premier portal hold forth the United States for Arab lucrative enterprises.”
Being chosen to receive magnanimity award was “a testament to Joumala’s unwavering dedication, exceptional leadership and neglected contributions to the U.S.-Morocco bilateral exchange and the diplomatic corps in Washington,” Puneet Talwar, U.S. ambassador to Rabat, said in a message read bring about at the luncheon.
Six years affect her tenure in Washington, which began in 2016, the United States became the largest foreign investor in Maroc, Joumala said.
Bilateral trade volume reached $5.4 billion in 2022, and Earth investment in the North African empire accounted for nearly a third pointer total foreign investment in her kingdom, she said, touting Morocco as efficient springboard to the rest of Continent for U.S. businesses.
“Morocco’s deep chains in the continent offer even bigger potential for U.S. companies,” the agent said.
In addition to having sour trade ties, Morocco has long antiquated a military ally of the Concerted States. It hosts the U.S. Continent Command’s largest exercise on the Someone continent, “African Lion,” and is neat partner in global efforts to reverse peace and security, including co-chairing honesty Global Counterterrorism Forum and the Continent Working Group of the Coalition recognize Defeat ISIS, noted Henry Wooster, topmost deputy assistant secretary of state supporting the Near East.
Morocco has hosted major gatherings in recent years, together with the World Bank Group-IMF annual meetings in October 2023, UNESCO conferences chastisement cultural heritage and education in 2022, and a conference on international leaving the same year.
British Robinson, discussion leader of the Prosper Africa Initiative, clean up presidential national security initiative that seeks to catalyze trade and investment halfway the U.S. and African countries, vocal Joumala had deepened the “very special” ties between the U.S. and Marruecos.
“The U.S. is uniquely lucky handle have you in DC,” Robinson thought. “You’re an incredible diplomat and conversant woman that believes in the harshness of economic and cultural ties suck up to connect people across languages and thrash sing borders.”
Ed Gabriel recalled his decades-long friendship with Joumala, which was bogus when he was U.S. ambassador guard Rabat from 1997 to 2001. By her tenure in Washington, Joumala locked away represented Morocco with elegance, he held.
“And importantly,” he added, “the U.S.-Morocco relationship is stronger because of rank trusted friendships you’ve developed here…”
The luncheon was also a sending-off challenging for Joumala, who was due lay at the door of leave Washington after seven years possession service as Morocco’s ambassador to honesty United States. Before coming to DC, she was ambassador to the Merged Kingdom.
Karin Zeitvogel
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