US Army Chief of Staff Meets Moroccan Defense Officials to Strengthen Military Cooperation

General McConville was received respectively by Abdellatif Loudiyi, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of National Defense Administration, and by Abdelfatah Louarak, Army Corps General, Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR).

According to a statement from the FAR, this is a working visit initiated by the two parties to review bilateral cooperation through training and experience-sharing activities.

To this end, the two military officials expressed their satisfaction with the regular holding of joint exercises, in particular the "African Lion 2021" exercise, the 17th edition of which is the best concretization of the high level of interoperability achieved by the forces of the two countries, the note points out.

It should be recalled that the strategic cooperation between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America was crowned, in October 2020, by the signing of a memorandum of understanding outlining the 2020-2030 decade-long roadmap for the consolidation of bilateral relations in the field of defense.