Morocco’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita met in Rabat on Wednesday with the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Maimunah Mohd Sharif, on the implementation of the new agenda for urban development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Morocco and around the world.
In a statement, quoting the portal of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Sharif said that these talks focused on the action of UN-Habitat in Morocco, as well as on the means of application of the UN program to improve people’s quality of life.
The UN official, who is on a working visit to the kingdom, added that this meeting also focused on the role that Morocco could play on the African continent in this area, as well as on the strengthening of joint actions between the kingdom and UN-Habitat, hailing Moroccan government’s will to consolidate its partnership and cooperation with UN-Habitat.
Practical steps to materialize UN-Habitat programs on the ground and ways to shed more light on the implementation of the new urban agenda and the SDGs were also discussed, she said.
As a reminder, the national office of UN-Habitat in Morocco was opened on Monday at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Land Use Planning, Town Planning, Housing and City Policy.
This office aims to strengthen the partnership between the two parties, since it will allow the kingdom to benefit from the support of the UN program in the implementation of its policies in the field of development and housing.
This ceremony also saw the signing of the UN-Habitat 2020-2023 country program, a strategic framework that guides cooperation between the UN program and Morocco.
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