President Mubarak, King Mohammed chair signing ceremony

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Morroco's King Mohammed VI chaired in Cairo on Tuesday afternoon the fourth session of the higher joint commission and the signing ceremony of several cooperation agreements and protocols.

Egypt's Foreign ministers Amr Moussa and counterpart Mohamed Benaissa signed the minutes of the higher joint commission fourth session.

Morroco's Housing Minister Mohamed El Yazghi and Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Ibrahim Souleymane initialed an agreement providing for wider cooperation in housing and city planning. El Yazghi also signed an accord on environment with environment affairs minister Nadia Makram Abid.

Morroco's Trade, industry and handicraft minister Alami Tazi and minister of economy and foreign trade Youssef Boutros Ghali signed a protocol extending the list of custom-rights exempted products. He also signed a cooperation memo with minister of industry and technology development to provide for cooperation between departments in charge of normalization.

Bouamour Taghouan, equipment minister signed with transportation minister Ibrahim Dmiri a protocol on technical cooperation in road infrastructure and a cooperation accord between the ports of Casablanca and Alexandria, namely the operation of a new sea-route connecting the two major harbors.