Morocco Spain17 Nov 2020 22:39
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Morocco, Spain Hold Talks on Strengthening Partnership in Energy Sector
16 November 2020 Printable Version
Rabat - Minister of Energy, Mining and Environment, Aziz Rabbah, and the Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera Rodriguez, held talks, via videoconference, on strengthening partnership between the two countries in the energy sector.
The talks, held on Thursday, are part of a series of consultations between the two ministers, the last of which was held last June, with the aim of giving new impetus to the existing strategic cooperation between Morocco and Spain, which is part of a vision of regional integration placing the two countries as two points of connection between Europe and Africa, says a statement from the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment.
The two parties discussed several issues of common interest, including natural gas, the electrical interconnection between the two countries, the partnership in the field of hydrogen, as well as the implementation of the Joint Declaration of the road map on the trade of electricity based on renewable energies, signed between Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, on the sidelines of the COP22, held in Marrakech in November 2016.
Regarding natural gas, the two parties reiterated their common will to give new impetus to discussions relating to bidirectional natural gas flows.