U.S. official meets Moroccan communication minister

Moroccan communication Minister, Larbi Messari, met lately here with U.S. assistant under-secretary of state for the Near East and North Africa, Ronald E. Neumann who paid a brief visit to the Kingdom.

The two sides reviewed the evolution of the Moroccan information sector, Morocco's alternation political experience and latest developments of the sahara issue.

The U.S. official had also talks earlier with Moroccan Interior minister, Driss Basri, as well as with the minister in charge of the Maghreb and the Arab-Islamic World, Abdeslam Znined.

Talks focused on cooperation prospects and partnership between Morocco and the USA in economic, political and cultural fields.

Neumann arrived early this week in Morocco coming from Tunisia, where he raised a new the U.S. project of setting up a US-Maghreban partnership similar the Euro-Maghreb association accords.