King Mohammed meets crown prince of Belgium
Morocco-Belgium, Politics, 9/11/2001

Morocco's King Mohammed VI, who was accompanied by Prince Moulay Rachid, received Monday morning at the Marshane Palace in the northern city of Tangier the crown prince of Belgium, Prince Philippe, who is currently visiting Morocco at the head of a large delegation of businessmen and investors.

After a tete-a-tete meeting, King Mohammed VI and Prince Philippe chaired a working session that was attended by Belgian deputy foreign minister in charge of agriculture, Ms Annemie Neyts, and members of the Belgian delegation.

Talks focused on the evolution of economic and financial cooperation between Morocco and Belgium, as well as on the evolution of the various partnership projects Belgium is undertaking in Morocco, especially in the rural world and in southern Morocco.

The two sides equally exchanged viewpoints on social aspect of bilateral cooperation, especially with regard to the everyday life and activities of the Moroccan community settled in Belgium and surveyed relations between Morocco and the European Union.

Belgium, which is currently holding the EU rotating chairmanship, renewed backing to the consolidation of an ambitious and innovative partnership between Morocco and the EU, in the perspective of the reactivation of the Barcelona process.

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