Morocco, USA set up high-level joint commission

Morocco and the United States have set up Monday a high-level joint commission to promote economic, financial and trade partnership between the two countries.

The commission comes to being under an agreement initialed in Rabat Monday by visiting deputy secretary of state, Edward Walker, and foreign affairs and cooperation minister, Mohamed Benaissa.

The new structure is meant to promote economic, financial and trade partnership between the two countries. Meeting annually in Rabat or Washington at ministerial level, it will also provide for discussions of major international issues.

Walker wound up in the afternoon his short visit to the kingdom where he met King Mohammed VI and government officials with whom he covered bilateral cooperation and the Middle-East peace-process.