{"id":93659,"date":"2018-07-05T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=98a36fe287c94da1a92289df38e8be7a"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:12:20","slug":"news-story-inaugural-uk-morocco-strategic-dialogue-held-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93659","title":{"rendered":"News story: Inaugural UK-Morocco Strategic Dialogue held in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Dialogue aims to deepen and strengthen our cooperation with Morocco across politics, economics, security and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was delighted to host Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita and Secretary of State Boucetta today for the first ever UK-Morocco Strategic Dialogue, here in London.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and Morocco have an illustrious 800-year old history of exchanges and friendship, so establishing this annual forum, alternating between the UK and Morocco, is a welcome and natural step. With many areas of interest, we agreed to focus our discussion on four themes: Political-Diplomatic, Security, Economic and Cultural.<\/p>\n<p>We exchanged letters on how the Dialogue might work over the years to come and discussed how a working group could maintain contact and momentum.<\/p>\n<p>We also discussed transport and tourist security, regional politics, trade and investment.<\/p>\n<p>I was particularly pleased to sign an education agreement that will allow British schools to open in Morocco, giving Moroccans the opportunity to study using our curriculum, and our schools a dynamic and growing new market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We look forward to further cooperation in the coming months, and indeed to the next dialogue in Rabat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (Thursday 5 July), Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Minister of State for the Middle East Alistair Burt hosted the first UK-Morocco Strategic Dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}