The said delegation, led by Mr. Doug Lamborn, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives, is made up of seven American congressmen who are members of the financial services, supply, foreign affairs, budget, agriculture, energy and trade committees.
The American Congressmen highlighted the excellence of the historic relations of friendship and cooperation linking the United States and the Kingdom of Morocco, strengthened by their strategic and multifaceted partnership and by the exchange of visits by senior officials of the two countries. . They also praised the important role of the Kingdom, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God help him, in the service of peace and stability in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East and as a initiator of initiatives and projects for shared development and prosperity in favor of Africa, indicates a press release from the National Defense Administration.
Mr. Loudyi welcomed the density of military cooperation ties and the implementation of the Roadmap for defense cooperation, signed in October 2020, defining the main areas of cooperation for the 2020 period. -2030.
The two parties also expressed on this occasion the excellent level of cooperation between the armed forces of the two countries, materialized in particular by the regular holding of the military exercise “African Lion”, which celebrated its 20th edition this year with the participation of more than 7,000 soldiers from African, Arab and European countries, in addition to the organizing countries, the United States of America and Morocco.
At the end of this meeting, the two delegations welcomed the dynamism of this cooperation, while expressing the common desire to explore and strengthen new opportunities for financial and technical cooperation to consolidate the interoperability of the Forces.