The Informer (Monrovia)
9 September 2009
The Government of Liberia and the Kingdom of Morocco have entered into an International Cooperation Agreement that will spur greater bilateral exchanges and give a major boost to the Liberian Government's Poverty Reduction Strategy.
A dispatch from Rabat said under the agreement, Morocco will provide Liberia more than US$1.5 Million in grant to help in the rehabilitation of the William V.S. Tubman College of Technology in Harper, Maryland County, and other educational institutions in Liberia.
The agreement will also encourage other economic and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
The Agreement was signed over the weekend following discussions Liberian Vice President Joseph N. Boakai held with the Moroccan Prime Minister, Mr. Abbas Fassi, during a three-day visit he (Vice President) paid to the Moroccan Capital, Rabat.
Prime Minister Fassi assured that the Morocco would continue to offer scholarships and other capacity building opportunities to Liberia to help strengthen its manpower development programs.
He thanked Liberia for supporting Morocco's position on the question of territorial integrity in the Western Sahara, and its struggle against the Polisario Front, a release from the Vice President's office said.
Vice President Boakai thanked the Moroccan government and people for the continued support to Liberia, and acknowledged that the Liberian Government had already begun work on the Tubman Technical College from the US$700,000 that had already been made available by the Moroccan government.
He recalled that the Moroccan Government has also provided several scholarships to Liberians to study Medicine and the Social Sciences in Morocco, but appealed for additional scholarships especially in Engineering and the Health Sciences.
Meanwhile Vice President Boakai also held discussions with the President and Speaker of the Moroccan Parliament, referred to as the Chamber of Counselors, for greater exchange of best practices and parliamentary training for Liberian Legislators.
Speaking during a courtesy call he paid on the President of the Moroccan Parliament, Honorable Mustapha Mansouri, and the Speaker of the House of Counselors, Hon. Maali Ben-kad-dour, in Morocco last Friday, Vice President Boakai said Liberian Legislators could benefit from the centuries of experience that Morocco has in parliamentary matters.
He expressed confidence that Liberian Legislators would welcome training and capacity building programs offered by the Moroccan Parliament.
Vice President Boakai who was accompanied on the visit by the Deputy Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. William Bull, also held discussions with the Moroccan Foreign and Cooperation Minister, Mr. Taib FASSI FIHRI, and later deposited a wreath on the grave of the late King Hassan and his father, King Mohammed the V.
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