King Mohammed receives US official

King Mohammed VI received on Friday US assistant secretary for the Middle East and North Africa, Edward Walker.

The meeting was attended by assistant under-secretary of state for the Middle east, Ronald Naumann, US ambassador to Morocco, Edward Gabriel, Morocco's delegate to the United Nations in New York, Ahmed Snoussi and minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa.

The US official who paid on Friday and Saturday a visit to Morocco, last leg of a tour that led him to Tunisia and Algeria, also met Moroccan premier, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, over latest developments in the middle east peace process and over the need for all sides to abide by the peace accords they have signed and speed up the ongoing process.

Talks also underscored Morocco's key role in activating the peace process and the need to consolidate Morocco-US relations.

Bilateral relations and the situation in the Arab Maghreb were also reviewed at a meeting between Walker and minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa.

It was Walker's first visit to the region since he was appointed last January to the position in replacement of Martin Indyk who took over as ambassador to Israel.