The leadership of HM King Mohammed VI and HM Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah will help Morocco and Brunei Darussalam add a new dimension to their bilateral relations, said Nasser Bourita, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates, in Rabat on Monday.

HM Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and HM King Mohammed VI are good friends. Following discussions with Brunei Darussalam’s second foreign minister, Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, who is in Morocco on a working visit, Bourita emphasized at a news conference that this relationship is crucial to the growth and strengthening of ties between the two nations.

He added that the 35-year-old relationship between Brunei Darussalam and Morocco is based on “solidarity and attachment to the same values, especially religion,” and that the two nations are connected by their membership in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and their shared vision of an open Islam.

Food security, tourism, investment, and intellectual exchanges are among the areas where Morocco and Brunei Darussalam cooperate, according to Bourita. Ten scholarships will be given by Morocco to students in Brunei Darussalam beginning in the upcoming academic year.

Despite their geographical distance, Yusof said that since the two nations’ diplomatic ties were established, they have continued to forge “warm and fraternal relations,” adding that “active exchanges between the two sovereigns, governments, and students have brought our peoples closer together.”

Exchanges in the areas of education and Islamic affairs have benefited both parties and helped to strengthen friendship and understanding between Brunei Darussalam and Morocco, he said.

Morocco and Brunei Darussalam are well-located in Southeast Asia and Africa, respectively, and can take use of this to boost “the development of economic activities,” according to the Minister.

This is the first official trip of its sort by a representative of this nation, the Second Foreign Minister of Brunei Darussalam, to Morocco. The Moroccan and Brunei Darussalam Ministries of Foreign Affairs joined together to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral cooperation and consultation on this occasion.

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With the consent of the governments of Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and Singapore, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Antonio Guterres, appointed The Moroccan Karima El Korri to the post of Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and Singapore, as announced by his spokesman in New York yesterday Wednesday.

“El Korri has more than 20 years of international development expertise inside the United Nations and other organizations,” the same source said in a statement.

El Korri recently chaired the 2030 Unit of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), which was in charge of the population and development portfolio and participated in the Commission’s work on issues such as international migration, demographic change, and youth empowerment.

Karima El Korri has previously worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a Regional Governance Adviser and Project Coordinator.

El Korri was a professor at the University of AL Akhawayn in Ifran before joining the worldwide organization, according to the same source.

She worked for a study and analysis center in Morocco, “where she fostered collaboration with the government, civil society, the corporate sector, universities, youth, and foreign organizations dealing with development challenges in the country,” according to her resume.

El Korri has a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University’s Teachers College and a bachelor’s degree in English from Mohammed V University in Rabat.

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