Moroccan Parliamentary Delegation Performs Working Visit to the United Kingdom

Upon the invitation of the Chairperson of the UK-Morocco Parliamentary Friendship Group at the UK House of Commons, MP Heather Wheeler, a Moroccan parliamentary delegation is performing a working visit to the United Kingdom on March 27-29, 2023.

The delegation includes Rep. Sahar Abdouh, the Chairperson of the Morocco-UK Parliamentary Friendship Group at the House of Representatives, Rep. Zina Idahli, the Deputy Speaker of the House and Group member, and Cllr. Jalila Morsli, the Chairperson of the Morocco-UK Parliamentary Friendship Group at the House of Councilors.

During the visit, the parliamentary delegation held several important talks with the MP Nigel Evans, the Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Commons; Lord Jeremy Purvis, a member of the Committee on European Affairs at the UK House of Lords; MP Heather Wheeler, the Chairperson of the UK-Morocco Parliamentary Friendship Group at the UK House of Commons; Bar. Stephanie Goudie, a world activist in women and children's rights and global peace and security; and Mr. Stephen Hickey, the Director of Middle East and Africa at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.

The meetings were an opportunity to affirm the quality of the parliamentary ties linking the legislative institutions of the two countries and commend the launch by the Kingdom of Morocco and the United Kingdom of a new era of cooperation, dialogue, and economic partnership.

On occasion, the members of the parliamentary delegation stressed the importance of exchanging parliamentary visits between the two legislative institutions in order to share parliamentary experiences and consolidate joint communication and coordination at the multilateral fora in which the Parliaments of both countries take part.

Besides, the Moroccan parliamentary delegation lauded the various joint government projects and activities, regulated by bilateral cooperation instruments, such as the strategic dialogue launched in 2018 and the business dialogue in 2020.

On the same occasion, the delegation proposed the creation of a Morocco-UK Parliamentary Forum, which could be a parliamentary cooperation framework to follow and monitor the Government projects linking the two countries and advance bilateral links.

The delegation is expected to hold talks with the members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women and Cllr. Hamza Taouzzale, Lord Mayor of Westminster, who is of Moroccan origins. Moreover, they will visit the seat of the UK Parliament and attend a Prime Minister's Questions session at the UK House of Commons.