Rkia Derham
Rkia Derham was born in 1978 in Las Palmas, Spain, although her birth was not registered until 1979 in Laayoune. She is a Moroccan politician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade between April 2017 and October 2019. She is a member of a Sahrawi family. Her father, Mohammed Fadhul al-Durham, fought in the Moroccan Army of Liberation against the Spanish, and her uncle Si Ahmed al-Durham was one of the first to participate in elections in the southern provinces after independence.
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edit- We should draw lessons from the death of a citizen from a mobile phone charger in order to understand that protecting our lives is more important than saving money.
- New mechanisms must be put in place to ensure the monitoring of the implementation of these agreements and to evaluate their results on an ongoing basis, while continuing efforts and collaboration with the countries concerned to remove non-customs barriers and technical obstacles to the exports of Moroccan companies.
- The government has carried out several studies on free trade agreements, while concluding that these agreements, alone, are not sufficient to develop the national economy and that it is necessary to establish a comprehensive and coherent vision to promote foreign trade by adopting integrated sectoral policies in order to develop and diversify the supply of exports and improve the added value of Moroccan products.
- Free trade agreements have helped improve the business climate in Morocco and have given new impetus to foreign investments, which have seen a qualitative evolution in recent years.
- This meeting is in particular an opportunity to assess the situation of female entrepreneurship in Morocco and the challenges to be met to strengthen the motivation and ambitions of women.