Younes Sekkouri, Morocco’s Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, held talks with his Yemeni counterpart, Anwar Mohammed Ali Kalshat Al-Mahri, Minister of Technical Education and Vocational Training, who is currently visiting Morocco.
The discussions focused in particular on strengthening exchanges of expertise and the possibility of welcoming more Yemeni youth into Morocco’s vocational training institutions. The two ministers also agreed to convene the joint commission responsible for advancing this cooperation in the near future.
On this occasion, the Yemeni minister praised the quality of political relations between the two countries and reaffirmed Yemen’s support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and the Moroccan autonomy initiative as a solution to the dispute over the Sahara.
Anwar Kalshat Al-Mahri also highlighted Morocco’s progress in the automotive and aerospace industries, two sectors in which the country has developed training programs alongside its industrial base to meet companies’ skills needs.
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For his part, Younes Sekkouri presented his counterpart with the main pillars of Morocco’s experience in modernizing and diversifying vocational training. He notably highlighted the rollout of the Cities of Trades and Skills (CMC) and efforts to strengthen ties between training institutions and their economic environment in order to better align courses and skills with the needs of businesses and the labor market.
According to Younes Sekkouri, this momentum contributes to “strengthening cooperation between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Yemen and developing their partnership in human capital development.”
