Morocco vows to strengthen active cooperation, solidarity with Africa

Morocco has renewed its strong and voluntary commitment to Africa and vowed to strengthen further its policy of active cooperation and solidarity with the continent, while reiterating its determination to work with African countries to achieve the objectives of the continental agenda 2063, aimed to build up a dynamic, strong, democratic and sustainable Africa.

The remarks were made by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in an address during the review of the Report of the Ministerial Committee of the African union on the implementation of Agenda 2063, at the 42nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union held in Addis Ababa.

Bourita, stressed that Agenda 2063, as an action plan of the African Union, is a roadmap suitable for achieving the economic integration and sustainable development the continent aspires to.

“The lessons learned from the first decade of Agenda 2063, which was a decade of convergence, can only serve to feed this ambition that drives us for the successful implementation of the second ten-year plan, which is a decade of acceleration,” said the Minister.

However, noted Bourita, the fulfilment of the aspirations and objectives of the Agenda depends primarily on the commitment of each member state to invest in the agenda implementation at the national level.

In this regard, the Kingdom of Morocco is committed, since its return to its African institutional family in 2017, in the implementation of the aspirations of Agenda 2063, said the Minister.

Bourita stressed that sustainable development, in its three economic, social and environmental dimensions, has been, since the beginning of the century, the central objective of the reform projects undertaken by Morocco and supported by the dedication of more than one third of its national wealth to investment in the productive sectors, economic infrastructure, human development, new technologies, renewable energy and urban development.

In addition, and in order to adapt these efforts to the economic changes and external shocks of recent years, Morocco has initiated a range of actions, namely, the establishment of a New Development Model whose vision and objectives, set for 2035, converge perfectly with the aspirations and objectives of Agenda 2063, the launch of a project to generalize social protection by 2025 and the development of an economic recovery plan that constitutes a framework for strengthening partnerships between the State and the private sector, promoting the involvement of the latter in the financing and implementation of Agenda 2063.