Rabat urban commune approves cooperation convention with Italian Catania

Rabat Urban commune approved on Tuesday a cooperation and friendship convention with the Italian city of Catania.

The convention, signed in Italy between the mayor of Catania and the president of Rabat urban commune, aims at improving cooperation between enterprises of the two cities, for a more fruitful partnership, part of the 1995 Barcelona Euro-Mediterranean declaration.

The two parties undertake to intensify efforts to develop tourism by exchanging expertise and professional training, in view of creating a tourism network between Rabat and Catania.

The two parties also agreed to give special importance to scientific research and archeology, professional training and the development of the agribusiness industry in the two cities.