Morocco, Mauritania Hold 8th Session of High Level Joint Commission

The session will be presided over by Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and Mauritania’s Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal on Friday, March 11.

The eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission of Senior Officials opened on March 9 in Rabat, with a number of ministerial representatives from both countries in attendance.
The session will be presided over by Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and Mauritania’s Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal on Friday, March 11.
On this occasion, Fouad Akhrif, ambassador and director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Mashreq, Gulf, Arab, and Islamic Organizations, said that the two countries’ relations are progressing forward into “establishing distinguished cooperation mechanisms and providing a stimulating legislative framework to achieve the two countries’ aspirations in improving their economic, social, cultural, and scientific relations.”
On a related note, Mohamed Hanchi El Ketab, Ambassador and General Director of the Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ bilateral cooperation department, believes that this meeting is a significant step forward in bilateral collaboration in areas such as fishing, vocational training, and trade.
Morocco and Mauritania are due to sign twelve cooperation agreements spanning sixteen fields, including trade, investment, agriculture, education, youth, and training.
In the presence of Minister Nasser Bourita and his Mauritanian counterpart Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, discussions over the organizing of the 8th session took part on May 24, 2021 in Rabat.
“During the next phases at the level of the joint commission and the monitoring committee, the focus will be on strengthening this sectoral cooperation and mobilizing economic players within the framework of a bilateral and trilateral vision,” Bourita said at a press conference following the meeting.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed, for his part, praised Morocco and Mauritania’s excellent political ties, but noted that “the economic and sectoral aspects require a greater push to translate His Majesty the King’s vision and His Excellency the Mauritanian President’s vision into strong neighborly relations, based on the foundations of human and historical relations and the adoption of the content of a strategic relationship between the two brotherly countries.”

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