Morocco's prime minister receives Lebanese minister

Morocco's prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, received in Rabat on Thursday Lebanese minister of public work and construction, Najib Miqati.

Youssoufi hailed the signing of two bilateral agreements on land transport and merchant navy as an important step in developing trade and the movement of persons between the two Arab countries, says a statement of the prime minister's office. The Lebanese official who is on a work visit to Morocco said it is necessary for the two countries to open an air line.

The two officials also stressed the need for a frank and earnest dialogue between the Arab states.

The Moroccan-Lebanese agreements signed earlier this week by Moroccan minister of transport and merchant navy, Abdeslam Znined, and the Lebanese minister come to consolidate the legal implements regulating cooperation between the two Arab countries and crown efforts made since the Moroccan prime minister visited Beirut last October to chair the high joint commission.