Slovak foreign minister visits Morocco

Slovak foreign minister, Eduard Kukan, arrived Sunday in Morocco on a two-day official visit at the invitation of Moroccan peer, Mohamed Benaissa.

The Slovak official told MAP his visit, the first ever by a Slovak foreign minister, will be an opportunity to promote bilateral cooperation and open political dialogue with Morocco.

Morocco and Slovakia are scheduled to sign a draft agreement on political consultations between foreign ministers, he added expressing his country's will to develop economic, education, cultural and scientific cooperation with Morocco.

The two countries will draft a time-table that would lead in the mid term to the conclusion of several agreements to improve the legal framework regulating bilateral relations. The projected agreements deal mainly with trade and the creation of a free trade area, investments, land and air transport, scientific and cultural cooperation.