Rabat – Morocco and Indonesia signed, here Friday, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership between the two countries.

Signed following talks between Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, and his Indonesian peer, Retno Marsudi, this MoU aims to diversify and expand their cooperation areas, notably bilateral security, parliamentary and regional cooperation, in addition to cooperation within international organizations.

It also concerns economic partnership, development cooperation, cultural, scientific, technical, social, consular and migratory cooperation, as well as tripartite cooperation.

‘We signed this memorandum of understanding on strategic partnership in accordance with the High Guidelines of HM King Mohammed VI and the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo,’ Bourita said at a joint press briefing with his Indonesian peer, adding that this strategy “shall not be a simple slogan but a reality
on the ground”.

Establishing a strategic partnership is ‘an ambition that we shall achieve, by giving substance to what has been signed,’ he underlined.

For her part, Marsudi called for pooling efforts to promote this new strategic partnership and give substance to a partnership that serves the interests of both peoples.

This strategic partnership, she pointed out, is likely to strengthen bilateral ties for greater cooperation between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Indonesia.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse