The Embassy of Morocco

Omar Zniber

Amb. Zniber has been Morocco's Permanent Representive to international organizations in Vienna, Austria, since June 2003. He has also operated as Morocco's Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. Prior to coming to Austria, Amb. Zniber headed the Directorate of the United Nations and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco for over three years. He was the chief of the Directorate's United Nations Division from 1996 to 1999.

Between 1989 and 1996 Amb. Zniber served as Counsellor in charge of disarmament issues, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Permanent Mission of Morocco in Geneva, Switzerland. During that time, Amb. Zniber was a member of the Drafting Committees for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He was also a coordinator of the non-aligned countries at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.

Morrocco and Germany have had established relations for more than two centuries. Cooperation between Germany and Morocco can rightly be described as exemplary and fruitful, and so in 2017 the embassy will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.