TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan said Monday it will further support Morocco’s democratization and economic development, signing a bilateral agreement on new grant aid of 300 million yen.
Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and his Moroccan counterpart Saad Dine El Othmani also agreed that the two countries will promote cooperation in the field of solar energy, according to a joint statement issued after their meeting in Tokyo.
The aid will be used by Morocco to procure industrial and medical products from Japan’s northeastern region that was badly hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami nearly a year ago.
Gemba has said he is planning to visit Morocco in early May to attend a follow-up ministerial meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
(Mainichi Japan) March 6, 2012
