APA-Rabat (Morocco) Morocco and Guinea agreed on Tuesday in Rabat to further enhance their partnership under the South-South cooperation, and should allow the private sectors of both countries to continue to play an important role in boosting economic exchanges.
In a joint statement issued after the talks between the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita and his Guinean counterpart, Morissanda Kouyate, the two sides welcomed the sustained pace of bilateral cooperation mutually beneficial and fruitful between the two countries, as well as the prospects for diversification and consolidation of this partnership in promising sectors such as training, agriculture, food security, marine fisheries, health, energy, management and operation of ports and mines.
During their meeting, Mr. Bourita and Mr. Kouyate also welcomed the excellent ties of deep and traditional friendship between the Moroccan and Guinean peoples and the mutual respect that exists between King
Mohammed VI and the head of the military government in Guinea Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya.
They welcomed the shared desire to make Moroccan-Guinean partnership relations an exceptional model of inter-African cooperation, based on the values of solidarity, exchange and sharing.
The two ministers have also welcomed the dynamics set in motion within the framework of the Atlantic African States Initiative to make the Atlantic African space a geostrategic framework for cooperation and intra-African consultation, pragmatic and timely.
The two parties also welcomed the signing, in December 2022, of the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding between Morocco, Nigeria and Guinea (Societe Nationale des Petroles) on the Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline project.
The two ministers welcomed, on the same occasion, the progress of this major strategic work, which will benefit all of West Africa by helping to structure a regional electricity market, by constituting a substantial source of energy for industrial development, improving economic competitiveness and accelerating social development and ensuring food security for the population.
Mr. Bourita and Kouyate have also agreed to hold the 7th session of the Grand Joint Commission of Cooperation between Morocco and Guinea next July in Dakhla, concludes the joint statement.
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