Moroccan human rights minister winds up visits to Sweden, Finland

Moroccan minister of human rights, Mohamed Aujjar, paid earlier this week visits to Sweden and Finland.

In Oslo, Aujar held separate meetings with Swedish foreign minister, Ms Anna Lindh, and minister of democracy and public administration, Ms Britta Lejon, a statement by the Human Rights ministry said.

He told his interlocutors how Morocco is determined to reactivate the Euro-Mediterranean process launched in Barcelona, as the Euro-Mediterranean space, he said, has become propitious to enlarge the scope of cooperation between the peoples of the region.

He also spoke of the latest developments in the issue of Morocco' s territorial integrity and surveyed the kingdom's democratic experience and progress scored in enforcing the rule of the law.

Aujar also conferred with the secretary general of Amnesty International section in Sweden on human rights promotion in Morocco. During the meeting, he voiced Morocco's concern over the worrying situation of the populations sequestered in the camps of Tindouf, in south-western Algeria.

In Helsinki, Aujar met the Finnish foreign minister, Erkki Tuomioja, and representatives of parliamentary groups at the Finnish parliament.

He briefed his interlocutors on the moves taken by Morocco to consecrate democratic values, through consolidating freedoms and the rule of the law and surveyed the latest developments of the kingdom's territorial integrity.

Means to enhance cooperation relations between Morocco and the Nordic countries were also probed.