Morocco has addressed the issues of democracy before the Arab spring: Deputy UK

Rabat, June 5, 2013 (map)

Morocco, an important and stable country in the region, has launched democratic reforms before the outbreak of the Arab spring, said Wednesday in Rabat, Richard Ottaway, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the British Parliament.

"Morocco, an important and stable country, addressed the issues of democracy and the full participation of its inhabitants before the Arab spring," Ottaway said at a press conference after a meeting with the Moroccan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Youssef Amrani.

Assistant to UK welcomed the important role of the Morocco in the sahelo-Saharan region, under the leadership of SM King Mohammed VI.

Amrani, for his part, said that he had discussed with the ambitious reform process, the opening UK employee, modenisation and good governance initiated under the direction of HM the King.

He expressed the desire of the Kingdom to develop economic cooperation with the United Kingdom.

On the question of the Moroccan Sahara, Minister delegate stated that resolution 2099 reaffirmed the primacy of the Moroccan autonomy initiative, that it recognizes the efforts of the Morocco to promote and protect the human rights and reiterates the call of the Security Council of the United Nations for a census of the population in the Tindouf camps.

He recalled that the resolution considers that the status quo is unacceptable and that it insists on the need for an urgent solution to this regional conflict, taking into account the security situation in the sahelo-Saharan region.

With regard to the integration of the Maghreb, Aguiar stressed the importance of the construction of the Arab Maghreb Union, recalling that SM King Mohammed VI had called for a new order of the Maghreb the aspirations of the peoples of the region.