Moroccan, Tunisian administration schools sign cooperation accord
Morocco-Tunisia, Politics, 12/18/1999

The Moroccan and the Tunisian administration schools have signed here on Friday a cooperation accord providing better exchanges in matters of training, further training, documentation and research.

The accord sets the cooperation programs between the two institutions and the implements to enforce the programs and provides for the holding of seminars and meetings at the bilateral and Maghreban levels.

The accord was initialed by the Moroccan minister of civil service and administrative reform, Hussein Aziz, and the visiting Tunisian secretary of state for administrative reform, Abdelhakim Bouraoui.

Bouraoui, who started his visit Wednesday conferred with several Moroccan officials, including Premier Abderrahmane Youssoufi, on cooperation in all administration-related sectors.

Talks also covered means of consolidating the administrative mechanisms in the two countries to take up the globalization challenges.

A special emphasis was laid on the need to ease administrative procedures to attract investors, both national and foreign.

The importance of reactivating the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA/mustering Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia), given the role the UMA can play in promoting the development of its member countries and helping them take up the challenges of the new world order, was also stressed at the Moroccan-Tunisian talks.

Morocco and Tunisia are bound by an accord on administrative development that was concluded last June.

Under the accord, the two countries pledged to trade experience in matters of administrative reform, boost cooperation in the field of administrative research and studies and exchange visits of officials in charge of administrative promotion.

The accord also provides for cooperation in the field of civil servants' training with the aim of easing administrative procedures and improving the services extended to citizens, businessmen and investors.

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