The Moroccan-Hungarian Business Council have launched several projects in the past few months; they have offered a warehouse base for Moroccan businessmen in Hungary, and on 15th March 2013 opened the first Hungarian Trade and Cultural Center in Rabat. This center provides Moroccan and Hungarian businessmen with a meeting point, a place for exchanging information and introduction.
At the meeting with Hungarian businessmen Saad Eddine Al-Othmani emphasized what an important step it was to create the Moroccan-Hungarian Business Council. As he put it: the Business Council shouldered all those tasks that politicians should have already dealt with earlier.
Morocco could be an ideal starting point for Hungarian companies towards Africa and Hungary could play the same role from the point of view of the Moroccan economy: for the companies of the North-African country it can be a centre for their Central-European activities – Moroccan goods could reach the other countries of the region from here. This is the opportunity that we have to seize and realize in specific projects and businesses, said Sándor Balogh after the negotiations.
Saad Eddine Al-Othmani was glad to say that Hungarian-Moroccan relations have deepened recently. This tendency should be reinforced by involving the representatives of the economic and civil sphere.
Saad Eddine Al-Othmani is the first Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs who has visited Budapest, that is why it is not an overstatement to talk about a new era in the relations of the two countries.
