This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Ahmed Al-Musaed
The State of Oujda-Angad hosted a regional consultative meeting on the work program on foreign trade for the period 2025-2026, chaired by Omar Hajira, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade and Governor of the region of the East, as part of an approach that reflects the government’s interest in developing the foreign trade system in the region.
This meeting is part of the participatory approach launched by the State Secretariat for Foreign Trade, with the aim of opening discussion with regional economic players and heads of decentralized services to formulate concrete proposals to enrich the action plan in the field of foreign trade.
In a speech delivered on this occasion, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Industry and Commerce in charge of Foreign Trade, Omar Hajira, indicated that the Foreign Trade Roadmap for 2025 aims to develop and stimulate the region’s exports, promote regional specificities, increase competitiveness. and access to new markets, and strengthen institutional coordination and governance, adding that the Eastern region ranks sixth among the Kingdom’s regions in terms of industrial exports, with approximately 2%, with a figure business of 6.6 billion dirhams.
Hajira concluded this meeting with optimistic language about the qualitative leaps that the region can achieve, provided that it focuses on developing its infrastructure, diversifying its markets and increasing foreign investment, focusing on the port of Nador as an integrated industrial port platform on the Mediterranean. coastal which offers an opening at the international level for the benefit of the eastern region, to compete with what the port of Tangier has achieved today, he said, promising to organize the regional investment and development forum. export with the contribution of partners and players in the sector. area of commerce, industry and investment, with Develop strategies to support and keep pace with the projects of Moroccans around the world and resolve their problems by providing facilities and incentives from the banking sector to attract this category of investors.
The Governor of the East also delivered his speech, highlighting the contribution of the enlightened vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God protect him, in obtaining very positive results in the field of foreign trade, allowing the Kingdom of Morocco to become among the leading African countries in this area, the Governor having mentioned a set of projects aimed at encouraging the investment sector in the near future in the Eastern region, through the launch of several large structures with economic and social impact, among which: major project linked to the port of Nador in the western Mediterranean, Aim to attract and locate national and international investments and to create wealth and direct and indirect employment opportunities. Create in the near future a group of industrial, economic and logistics zones in all regions of the region to support and receive productive investments that create employment opportunities. Continue to support the Regional Investment and Enterprise Fund in partnership with the region; Create a platform for the promotion and marketing of regional products from the Eastern region in order to support the social and solidarity economy of the region, as well as to make it an economic and commercial hub open to the African, European and Mediterranean portal, as well as than the Maghreb on the other hand.
The governor of the region concluded the meeting by calling for the intensification of the efforts of all elected officials and regional managers of decentralized institutions and interests, particularly those active in the field of trade, industry and investment, in order to to take a set of appropriate measures. measures to address economic and social challenges as part of the development of a national vision and a global work program responding to the aspirations of businesses and investors and taking into account regional needs and specificities.
