"This should be accomplished by focusing on the important issues confronting us", she said in an article published in the Morocco 2011 Report of the international think-tank, Oxford Business Group.

    The US official cited in this connection regional security, economic development, religious tolerance and social reforms.

    "None of these goals can be accomplished through laws and governments alone. They require a broad coalition of like-minded people who can translate laws into lasting change", said the Secretary of State, who added that the people of America "are proud of our friendship with the Moroccan people".

    "We are grateful for what this partnership has accomplished for more than two centuries", said Clinton, stressing that "like many countries, the US has watched with great admiration the progress that Morocco has achieved under His Majesty King Mohammed VI's leadership and the democratically elected government of Morocco".

    This government has passed reforms that have made new opportunities available to people who did not have a chance before to participate fully in the political, social and economic life of their country, she said, adding that “it is not a surprise that I want to praise the reforms that have granted new freedoms to women who are bringing their talent to bear in strengthening democratic institutions, accelerating economic growth and broadening the work of civil society”.

    These opportunities have flourished for the Moroccan people amid an environment of religious tolerance, said the official, noting that this tolerance is an example of how government leadership with the support of civil and religious institutions can create conditions in which people and communities thrive.

    Clinton stressed that Morocco is taking important steps in other more specific issues, recalling clean energy whose implementation has become priority for future strategy.

    She recalled, in this connection, the launch by King Mohammed VI of the renewable energy initiative, an infrastructure programme that will include American technology.

    Other important issues between Morocco and the US are the Free Trade Agreement and the Millennium Challenge, said the official, stressing that Rabat and Washington are also working together to develop their cooperation on counterterrorism, trying to stop the scourge of trafficking in drugs and people in the region, promoting human rights and creating an atmosphere of regional stability.

    “We will work together to advance our shared goals of security, prosperity and opportunity”, she said.

    “One of our shared goals is to give the aspirations of the Palestinian people a reality, namely their own State and control over their future”, she said, explaining that Morocco and the US have discussed how the position of the Obama Administration has not changed.

    “We don't believe that settlements are legitimate”, she stressed.

    The US official insisted that “much of what Morocco has done can serve as a model for other nations” and “I believe that this model can benefit people not only in Morocco, but those who care about increasing the opportunities for a better life for all people”.