Comoro foreign minister carries on talks in Rabat

Foreign minister of the Comoro Islands, Souef Mohamed Lamine, who is currently on an official visit to Morocco, is carrying on contacts with Moroccan officials on bilateral relations and on African, Arab and international issues of mutual concern.

The foreign minister on Thursday held separate meetings with the minister of the interior Ahmed Midaoui and with minister of national education, Ismail Alaoui.

Lamine briefed his interlocutors on the developments in the Comoro Islands at the political, economic and social scales, and pointed out during his meeting with Ismail Alaoui that 60% of his country's cadres were trained in Morocco in the eighties.

Touching on the assistance Morocco can extend to the Comoro Islands, especially in the realms of education and staff training, he called Morocco to enable a larger number of Comoro students to attend Moroccan universities and higher institutes and not to apply to them the quotas generally enforced for foreign students.

Lamine also held a meeting with the director general of the Rabat-based Islamic Educational, scientific and Cultural organization (ISESCO) that was crowned by the signing of an accord on the ISESCO delegation in the Comoro capital, Moroni.

The Comoro official, who started his visit to Morocco on Tuesday had earlier conferred with communication minister, Larbi Messari, on cooperation in information and audiovisual sectors.