Dutch officials to visit Morocco to consolidate cooperation

Several Dutch officials will be visiting Morocco by the beginning of next year, to consolidate Moroccan-Dutch cooperation, said in Rabat Monday Dutch secretary of state to foreign affairs, Dick Benschop, following talks with Prime Minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi.

The visits will be seeking to increase trade and economic links through trade missions by enterprises of the two countries, said the Dutch official who had also met human rights minister, Mohamed Aujjar and secretary general of the foreign affairs and cooperation ministry, Rachad Bouhlal.

He added talks with Moroccan officials surveyed economic ties between the two countries and Morocco's relations with the European Union, in addition to international issues. He also underscored the need to re-launch the Euro-Mediterranean Barcelona process.

The Dutch secretary of state to foreign affairs started on Monday an official visit to Morocco.