Uruguay renews support to Morocco's territorial integrity, sign package of agreements
Morocco-Uruguay, Politics, 5/25/1999

Uruguayan vice-president, Hugo Fernandez Faingold, who is on an official visit in Morocco, renewed on Monday his country's support to Morocco's territorial integrity.

In a speech during a diner banquet offered in his honor by Moroccan prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, the Uruguayan vice-president who is also speaker of the parliament, stressed that the two countries share similar views on a number of regional and international issues.

After he hailed the excellent bilateral relations, Faingold voiced his country's will to consolidate economic and partnership ties with Morocco in culture, economy and trade.

The Moroccan premier said he was optimistic at the results of the Uruguayan vice-president's visit to Morocco and underscored the multiple economic potentials offered by the two countries and the need to intensify and diversify cooperation.

Morocco and Uruguay signed on Monday a package of agreements destined to boost trade, cancel the visa requirement for diplomats of the two countries and increase political consultations between the two sides.

Moroccan prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, who chaired over the signing ceremony, hoped that the accords would make up for the absence of a legal framework for relations between Morocco and uruguay and for the weakness of bilateral economic and trade exchanges.

The Uruguayan vice-president who is also speaker of the Senate started on Sunday a four-day official visit to Morocco part of a north African tour destined to boost his country's economic relations with the region.

Trade between Morocco and Uruguay are very low: from $ 416.660 in 1985, they went up to $ 1.8 million in 1991, $ 4.01 million in 1993 and $ 8.9 million in 1997.

In 1998, Morocco imported from Uruguay $ 5.7 million worth of wheat, wood and wool and exported to the latin American country $ 833,330 worth of natural fertilizers.

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