ASEAN Secretary General Pays Working Visit to Morocco on June 24-26
Rabat - The Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, is paying a working visit to Morocco, on June 24-26, chairing a large delegation.
This visit, which follows the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, is Kao’s first to Morocco and Africa.
ASEAN is a regional economic, political and cultural cooperation organization which gathers 10 Southeast Asian countries, namely Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and the Sultanate of Brunei.
This regional gathering, which represents the 5th world economic power and the 2nd in Asia, represents a market of more than 677 million consumers and $3,786 billion in terms of GDP. It is also an economy with a stable yearly growth rate of 5%, and a unique market whose agreement was signed on December 31, 2015.
Morocco had joined ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in 2016, prior to obtaining the status of Sectoral Dialogue Partner with this important grouping in September 2023.
Through this status, the Kingdom and ASEAN convened to develop a long-term multidimensional partnership, based on projects and substantial, concrete and achievable cooperation areas.
Morocco also expressed its commitment to sharing its expertise with ASEAN in order to support the grouping’s priorities in promoting its political-security, economic and socio-cultural communities.
The Kingdom also strengthened its presence in other Southeast Asian regional organizations, mainly those institutionally or geographically linked to ASEAN, through the obtention of the status of partner with the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in 2017, the obtention by the House of Representatives of the status of observer within the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) in 2020, as well as the obtention by the Kingdom of the status of “Associate Member” within the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) in 2021.
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