Moroccan-Tunisian talks on administration cooperation

Tunisia's secretary of state for administrative reform, Abdelhakim Bouraoui, who is currently visiting Morocco, held talks with several Moroccan officials on cooperation in all administration-related sectors.

Separate meetings held with the minister of civil service and administrative reform, Hussein Aziz, the minister in charge of economic forecasts and planning, Abdelhamid Aouad, and the secretary of state in charge of post and new information technologies, Larbi Ajjoul, discussed the 2000 program of action that provides for the setting up of joint working groups.

These groups will exchange views and experience in matters of salaries and allowances, the civil service at large and the use of computers within the administration.

Morocco and Tunisia are bound by an accord on administrative development that was concluded last June.

Under the accord, the two countries pledge to trade experience in matters of administrative reform, boost cooperation in the field of administrative research and studies and exchange visits of officials in charge of administrative promotion.

The accord equally provides for cooperation in the field of civil servants' training with the aim to ease administrative procedures and improve the services extended to citizens, businessmen and investors.