LIBREVILLE, Feb. 24 - Visiting HM
King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Gabonese President, El Haj Omar Bongo
Ondimba, co-chaired, here Thursday, the signing of four cooperation
accords in fisheries, trade and industry.
The fisheries accord provides for cooperation in training and scientific
and technical research. The two countries undertake to carry out joint
programs to improve exploitation and marketing of their sea resources.
Morocco and Gabon agreed under a second accord to strengthen industrial
and trade cooperation, notably in infrastructures, hosting industrialists
in free zones, exports, partnership between small and medium-sized
enterprises and know-how and technology transfer. The goal is to promote
economic and social development and to guarantee a better integration of
their economies.
Economic integration will further be consolidated by a third agreement
that projects cooperation in standardization, quality promotion and
conformity assessment. Under the accord, Morocco will assist Gabon in the
establishment of a center for standardization and technology transfer in
Libreville.
The fourth accord covers funding methods for joint actions conducted by
the Moroccan national Agency for small and medium-sized enterprises
promotion and the Agency for private investments in Gabon. The accord
meets the need for a greater south-south cooperation with the assistance
of international institutions or other countries part of three-party
cooperation.
After the signing ceremony, HM King Mohammed VI and president Bongo held
private talks.
Gabon is the first leg of the Moroccan monarch’s visit to three African
countries. HM the King dedicated Thursday a new haemodialysis center in a
hospital in Libreville.
The center is part of Moroccan-Gabonese health cooperation and of
sustainable development endeavors in the African continent.
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