King Mohammed calls Morocco, USA to move towards strategic partnership

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday called on Morocco and the USA to move towards a "quality strategic partnership."

"We need to aspire to greater heights so as to move our cooperation towards a quality strategic partnership focusing on four global and inter-dependent objectives: to ensure security, to strengthen democracy to generate prosperity and to edify peace," King Mohammed VI said at an exchange of addresses during a dinner banquet hosted in his honor at the White House by President Bill Clinton.

The king voiced pride over Morocco's centuries-old tradition, political stability and long-standing tradition of moderation and openness. "The Kingdom of Morocco offers exemplary evidence that it can be (…) a state of law, a multi-party democracy open to government alternation, a competitive liberal economy fostering the private initiative and direct investments," the sovereign said, highlighting Morocco's character as a "land of tolerance where all citizens coexist in dignity and in racial and religious harmony."

King Mohammed VI also recalled Morocco's long tradition of a nation ever endeavoring for the consolidation of World peace.

"During the reign of my late father, His Majesty King Hassan II, the Kingdom of Morocco (…) made its contribution (…) towards peace and security at various theatres of action and in different part of the world," he said.