New Cooperation Agreements in View for Cameroon-Morocco

Cameroon and Morocco will at the end of the second session of their Joint Commission meeting that started in Yaounde yesterday, September 5, strengthen cooperation ties in particular sectors such as trade exchanges, training, education, agriculture, health, social affairs and also establish a win-win partnership. The leader of Morocco's experts to the Joint Commission session, Lahcen Azoulay, Director of Judicial Affairs and Treaties in the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, revealed in Yaounde yesterday.

Experts meeting of the Joint Commission started at the Yaounde Conference Centre, co-chaired by the acting Secretary General at Cameroon's Ministry of External Relations, Felix Mbayu and Lahcen Azoulay for Morocco on behalf of their respective Foreign Affairs Ministers. The experts will prepare documents on partnership agreements and other issues to be discussed when the ministers meet.

Speaking while opening the experts meeting, the leader of Cameroon's delegation of experts, Felix Mbayu said the second session comes five years after the first one took place in Morocco in 2007. He explained that the long delay was due programming hurdles. The current Yaounde session, he said, will be a forum to evaluate cooperation between Cameroon and Morocco, revisit cooperation agreements, seek ways of intensifying trade exchanges as well as discuss and adopt cooperation projects. These projects, Mr Mbayu wished, should make cooperation more palpable and concrete.

The second session of the Joint Commission, the Moroccan official said, was the ideal occasion to evaluate bilateral cooperation, identify obstacles to the execution of cooperation projects and make proposals for future ones. Besides citing specific areas of cooperation, he said they encourage the participation of the private sector of both countries in boosting investments within the spirit of win-win cooperation. After the opening ceremony, the experts started meeting in sub-commissions specifically those of judicial affairs, economy and trade as well as technical cooperation.