Morocco, Qatar pledge to strengthen bilateral ties

RABAT, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani and the Speaker of Qatari Advisory Council Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud pledged to further strengthen bilateral ties, Morocco's official MAP news agency reported Thursday.

During their meeting in Rabat, the two parties also hailed the Moroccan-Qatari relations and underlined their determination to develop them at the political, economic and cultural levels, the report said.

El Othmani said that the two countries share views on several Arab and Islamic issues, on the top of which is the Palestinian issue.

For his part, the Qatari official expressed his country's pride in its long-standing and deep friendship with Morocco, adding that Qatar has special respect for Morocco and King Mohammed VI.

The Moroccan prime minister received the speaker of the Qatari Advisory Council and several other Qatari parliament members on the sidelines of the 14th session of the Conference of the Union of Councils of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held in Rabat on March 11-14. Enditem