Moroccan - Italian talks over Moroccan expatriates
Morocco and Italy will sign next October an agreement on the integration of Moroccan immigrant children, says a release issued at the end of a meeting Monday between visiting Moroccan minister of social development, solidarity, employment and vocational training, Khalid Alioua, and Italian social solidarity minister, Livua Turco.
The two countries have set up a joint technical committee to draft the agreement. It will meet in Italy this week and in Morocco next September.
Alioua told MAP bureau in Rome issues related to the stay conditions of Moroccans living in Italy were also reviewed during the Moroccan-Italian meeting. Morocco voiced concern over social welfare of the Moroccan expatriate workers and wished that Italy would ratify the soonest the germane bilateral agreement.
The two countries are joining efforts to control the labor black market, he said adding that Morocco is committed to fight the phenomenon of children labor, in conformity with various international covenants it has signed.
Alioua who is visiting Italy this July 10-12 met trade unions' executives and took part with former Italian premier, Massimo D'Alema, in a seminar on "social gaps."
He is scheduled to participate on Wednesday in an international conference on "migrations, a scenario for the 21st century" to expound southern countries' view on the phenomenon.
