Moroccan premier presents government's short-term program to governors

Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi presented on Wednesday to the walis (senior governors) and governors the government's short term program.

The prime minister who chaired a meeting between the cabinet and the walis and governors laid a special emphasis on the fields that directly concern the citizens, such as economic and social development, rural development, education, and employment.

The government's spokesman, Khalid Alioua, told reporters after the meeting that the prime minister underlined the role that must be played by the walis and governors in implementing the charter of sound management that provides for administrative reforms and modernization.

The charter, he said, aims at reflecting the new image of the administration, based on the respect of the law and of the general interest and on efficiency and firmness in materializing the government's policy at the local level, especially in the current juncture that requires genuine partnership between economic and social operators, the political class and the civil society to take up the economic and social challenges.

The prime minister also stressed the need to build up trust between the territorial administration and the citizens and to lower the obstacles hampering investments. The meeting provided opportunity to the prime minister to expound the government's standpoint on the issues of administrative and justice reforms, employment, rural development and investments promotion, the spokesman said.

During the meeting, a number of ministers made presentations on issues of concern to their departments.

In this respect, minister of foreign affairs and cooperation made a presentation on the country's territorial integrity and on the critical situation the Arab world is currently going through.

The minister of the interior made an address on local development while economy and finance minister expounded the government's policy in matters of investments and the role to be played by local councils in this respect.

Minister of agriculture surveyed the measures to be adopted by the government to face up the difficult juncture entailed by the drought that is affecting the country.