South-South cooperation is a strategic choice for which His Majesty King Mohammed VI does not cease to act nationally and internationally to make “a central axis of our policy and our international relations with all other countries in the world to achieve our common goals,” he said.
And for the achievement of common goals, added Bioui, also president of the Council of the Eastern region, “our Association and our Regions are firmly committed to a dynamic path of partnership in the direction of local authorities in Africa and particularly in the direction of the Regions of Côte d’Ivoire, a friendly country with which Morocco maintains a remarkably fraternal and ambitious relationship in its political, economic and cultural dimensions”.
For the Association of Regions of Morocco, South-South cooperation is not a choice of circumstance, he added, noting in this sense that the strategy of the Association believes sincerely in the values of solidarity, unity of forces of goodwill and the principles of freedom which is the common good of all humanity.
Recalling in this regard the creation of the Forum of African Regions (FORAF), which the Eastern Region has the privilege to have initiated this idea, he said that this Region of the Kingdom has signed memoranda of understanding of cooperation with 12 Regions representing 7 African countries, namely Nigeria, Cameroon, Mauritania, Niger, Comoros Islands, Madagascar and Congo.
According to Bioui, decentralized cooperation in international economic relations is a lever for development, exchange of experiences, mutual aid and assistance.
