Morocco has said its trade with the ECOWAS region hit one billion dollars in 2016 and reinforced its request to join the region.
President of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Mr Habib El Malik said this when he hosted delegation of ECOWAS parliamentarians led by the Speaker of the parliament at an inaugural session on regional integration in Rabat, Morocco on Thursday.
The session was tagged “Towards a better movement of persons and goods among African countries: What mechanisms?”
Malik emphasised that Morocco was committed to the promotion of regional and continental integration and trade.
“ECOWAS and Morocco have strong relations; volume of trade between both parties was one billion dollars in 2016 which represents more than 37.3 per cent of increase compared to 10 per cent of trade in 1996.”
“Morocco is ECOWAS’ first economic…
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