The links between Morocco and Mauritania continue to tighten with a Mauritanian desire to further develop cooperation between the two neighbors. This Monday, the Mauritanian Minister Delegate inside, responsible for decentralization and promotion of local development, Yacoub Salem Vall, began a visit of several days to build official contacts with Moroccan officials.
For 4 days, the Mauritanian Minister will carry out a series of consultations and meetings with Moroccan officials to discuss advanced decentralization and regionalization by taking the Moroccan model for example.
Mauritania, a neighboring country, knowing similar dynamics in Morocco, is interested in Moroccan experience, in particular by establishing local partnerships between similar regions or sharing the same interests.
In Rabat, Yacoub Salem Vall was received by the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, which testifies to the high solicitude and the friendship that the kingdom dedicates to his neighbor of the South.
During their meeting, the two ministers discussed decentralization, in particular by approaching the experience of Morocco and the means of expanding and strengthening bilateral cooperation in this key area, according to a press release from the Ministry of the Interior.
Vall welcomed Morocco’s “successful” experience on this occasion in terms of advanced regionalization and decentralization. And to indicate that his displacement in the kingdom, which is part of the relations of fraternity and fruitful cooperation between Morocco and Mauritania, under the wise conduct of King Mohammed VI and President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani.
Accompanied by a high -level delegation, the Mauritanian Minister, called on both the representatives of professionals in the sector and to political representatives. He is thus accompanied by the president of the association of mayors of Mauritania, the second vice-president of the association of the regions of Mauritania, the president of the parliamentary group for decentralization and the director general of decentralization and local development.
Yacoub Salem Vall and Abdelouafi Laftit addressed the subject of solid waste management at the municipalities, local services, territorial planning and digital transformation or even urban development and have expressed their interest in strengthening the bilateral partnership in these many fields.
South-south links and cooperation that develop
This dynamic of partnership goes in the direction of a common will between the leaders of the two neighboring countries to establish even more economic and strategic ties. Mauritania and Morocco have been experiencing a new positive impulse in their relations for several months, which may have been observed during the meeting between the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani and King Mohammed VI, on December 20 at the Royal Palace of Casablanca.
Since that date, the pace of bilateral meetings at the ministerial level has accentuated, and projects between the two countries are provided, among other things, in the fields of energy, the desalination of water and infrastructure, such as an electrical connection agreement in perspective and a direct road axis which should be inaugurated soon.
More recently, the Mauritanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, went to Morocco on March 26, to meet his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, and confirmed the level of relations between Nouakchott and Rabat.
At the end of April, the second edition of Morocco Week “Together to build a solidarity partnership” organized in the Mauritanian capital was able to give an overview of Moroccan companies and existing institutions, allowing to share their services and their products and open the way to new bilateral projects.
Likewise, Mauritania has demonstrated in recent months of its detachment from the Polisario militia, and seems to no longer endorse this separatist group, in a desire to free itself from the pressure of Algeria. Nouakchott has shown subtle diplomacy and firm both on this subject, despite attempts at Algerian intimidation.
