Youssoufi winds up visit to Colombia
Moroccan Premier Abderrahmane Youssoufi winds up Thursday a visit to Colombia and heads for Chile on a three-day visit to the country where he attends Saturday the swearing-in of President Ricardo Lagos.
In Bogata, Youssoufi met president Andres Pastrana who decorated him with the Boyaca Order cordon and the speaker of the colombian Senate, M. Miguel Pinedo Vidal, who handed him the outstanding cross of the Congress.
The premier visited the Simon Bolivar monument, the Gold Museum and chaired the signing ceremony of a document providing for later twinning of Rabat and Bogota.
In meetings in Bogota crowned by cooperation agreements in tourism, education, science, culture and newswire, Youssoufi underlined Moroccan resolve to enhance cooperation ties with Bogata and voiced support to president Pastrana's efforts to restore peace in the country.
President Pastrana said trade between his country and Morocco, Colombia's first economic partner in Africa, has known noteworthy increase in the last decade where they progressed from $ 1.8 million in 1991 to over $ 10 million last year.
