APA-Rabat (Morocco) – The Moroccan sovereign has decorated American officers.
Morocco and the United States signed a military cooperation roadmap in Rabat on Tuesday. This deal outlines the guidelines for the implementation of the activities planned at the 13th session of the Moroccan-American Defence Consultative Committee (DCC).
At the end of the second working session of the DCC, held at the headquarters of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), awarded decorations to three American officers in recognition of their efforts to develop and promote military cooperation between Morocco and the United States.
The decorated officers are Major General Daniel Boyack, Commander of the Utah State National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Teremura Shamel, Head of the Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) at the US Embassy in Rabat, and Major Christopher Tarbet, Bilateral Affairs Officer at the same office.
In accordance with the High Royal Instructions for the holding of the 13th session of the DCC, Lieutenant General, Inspector General of the FAR and Commander of the Southern Zone, received on Monday Celeste Wallander, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. She is on a working visit from 17 to 22 May, accompanied by the US Defence Attaché accredited to Morocco and a large military delegation.
The Defence Consultative Committee meeting provides a platform for strategic dialogue to discuss critical regional security issues and outline future action plans with AFRICOM and the Utah State National Guard, as well as capacity-building projects managed by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
Moroccan-American military cooperation is governed by bilateral agreements, memoranda of understanding and technical arrangements that define the procedures for implementing this cooperation.
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