Moroccan-Equatorial Guinean cooperation promising, PM
Cooperation prospects between Morocco and Equatorial Guinea are "promising" and there are great hopes to develop the cooperation, Moroccan Premier, Driss Jettou told the press at the end of a meeting, in Rabat Monday, with Equatorial Guinea peer, Miguel Abia Bieto Borico.
Equatorial Guinea offers new opportunity and is recording a sound economic growth fostered by its oil resources, Jettou said recalling the West African country and Morocco signed several accords and have prospective cooperation in air transports and telecoms.
Lately, a Moroccan company won a 60 million euro contract for the construction of the Malabo port, while a peer won a bid for the construction of 300 apartments to cost 30 million euros. Jettou said Equatorial Guinea has always supported Morocco regarding its territorial integrity.
Bieto Bourico highlighted the support of Morocco at the time of the late King Hassan II and presently of King Mohammed VI to Equatorial Guinea for peace and stability that helped secure good economic growth in his country.
The Equatorial Guinean Premier is accompanied in his three-day visit, he started Monday to Morocco, by a delegation of several ministers, high-ranking officials and representatives of autonomous institutions and businessmen.
The same day, the two African countries' health ministers, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah and Justino Obama, held a working meeting in Rabat on developing health cooperation and heard presentations by close aides on medical training and the pharmacy industry in Morocco that could benefit Equatorial Guinea. For their part, Moroccan industry and trade minister, Salaheddine Mezouar and Equatorial Guinean economy Secretary of State, Jose Angel Boriko Moises held talks on new bilateral cooperation orientations, including the building of industrial zones, vocational training, fisheries, agriculture.
