Touching on Morocco's development efforts, the Minister highlighted the significant and remarkable progress which has been made thanks notably to the large-scale anti-poverty programme, the national initiative for human development (INDH), launched by HM the King in 2005.

"Thanks to the INDH, we made significant progress not only at the government level, but also in terms of close cooperation with organizations and elected authorities at the national and local scales," he underscored.

Fassi Fihri stressed that "developed countries should earmark 0.7% of their GDPs to support south countries" in order to help achieve MDGs, underlining, in this respect,  the need for south-south cooperation.

Morocco has been cooperating for years with African countries to achieve MDGs, he said.