World trade promotion conference opens in Morocco

The third World conference of Trade promotion bodies opened in Maraakesh Thursday with several Moroccan and foreign experts attending.

The conference is debating issues related to trade promotion and the challenges of globalization. It seeks to promote the exchange of expertise and information between trade promoters for a better expansion of World trade exchanges.

The conference is held part of a process started in 1996 in Cartagena, Colombia. The second conference was held in Santiago, Chile.

Addressing the conference opening session, Moroccan industry, trade, energy and mining minister, Mustapha Mansouri, surveyed the reforms being introduced by Morocco to consolidate competitiveness and promote external trade.

The minister also stressed Morocco's will to consolidate e-commerce as a new mode of trade exchanges in the third millenium.