Morocco, India hope war in Afghanistan would not be protracted
Morocco-Afghanistan, Politics, 11/2/2001

Morocco and India expressed hope that war in Afghanistan would not be protracted to spare the region and the whole world unforeseeable consequences and to avoid a high toll of civilian victims.

This came at a meeting here Thursday between a visiting Indian delegation, led by Secretary General of the Indian foreign ministry, RS Kalha, and Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa.

Talks covered several bilateral and international issues, Benaissa told MAP after the meeting.

The Indian delegation's visit is part of the political consultations between the two countries, decided during the official visit King Mohammed VI paid to India last February, Benaissa said, adding Kalha handed him a message from his Indian peer, Jaswant Singh, expressing thanks to Morocco for having erected at the Al Akhawayne University in Afrane a sculpture representing Mahatma Ghandi, the father of the Indian nation.

This initiative is a tribute to Mahatma Ghandi, to his ideals and to the whole of India and evidences the close ties between the two countries, says the message, recalling the sovereign's state visit to India, which marked a historic turning point in Moroccan-Indian relations.

Decisions made during the royal visit are an ambitious program for bilateral relations that will be enhanced during the coming session of the Moroccan-Indian joint commission, scheduled for next year.

This session will provide opportunity to give a new momentum to economic and trade relations, said Benaissa who announced an exchange of visits between the two countries' foreign ministers in the course of next year.

The Moroccan-Indian political consultations started Thursday morning at a work session between the Indian delegation and Moroccan secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation, Taieb fassi Fihri.

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