Libya gets Moroccan support on embargo lifting

Moroccan prime minister Abderrahman Youssoufi renewed Morocco's solidarity with Libya regarding the international embargo enforced on Libya.

In a statement with Libyan news agency JANA, the Moroccan premier who underlined the "excellent brotherly" relations existing between the two north African states denounced the embargo as "a jeopardy of our evolution, rights to life and development," Map reported.

Youssoufi told JANA the Moroccan-Libyan joint commission which wound up its works Thursday in Rabat under the chairmanship of the two states' heads of government was an opportunity to survey the quantitative and qualitative evolution of bilateral relations with the aim of intensifying and promoting them.

The third session of the joint commission was discussed the opportunities to move forward bilateral relations, Youssoufi added.