JaridatiISSUE 17 Jan - Feb 2009 In this issue

AMPA 5114 Dudley lane Unit 301 Bethesda, MD 20814.Fax: (201) 221-8629jaridati@amp-usa.org

PAGE ONE• AMPA Management message Word from Karim SijilmassiPAGE TWO • Interview with Mr. Chaabi PAGE THREE • Featuring membersPAGE FOUR • Interview with YMEC 2007 soumaya YacoubiPAGE FIvE• New York Event PAGE SIX• CSSF: Rabat Press conference PAGE SEvEN & EIGHT • Le Citoyen MarocainPAGE NINE• SafarclickPAGE TEN• Career OpportunitiesPAGE ELEvEN• RekrutePAGE TWELvE• Career Opportunities by OMINDATAPAGE THIRTEEN• Moroccan Mobile ConsulatePAGE FOURTEEN • Bladi newsPAGE FIFTEEN & SIXTEEN • How to become an AMPA Sponsor

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NY Fundraiser event coverage in page 5

Dear AMPA member, Consistent with AMPA’s tradition of excellence and suc-cess, this year’s fundraiser in New York was an outstanding ac-complishment and a testament to AMPA’s members and manage-ment team dedication. Indeed, the honorable presence of his Excellency the Ambassa-dor of the Kingdom of Morocco, along with the outpouring sup-port from the Moroccan community, made the event all the more successful.

This show of support consolidates our profound belief in our ma-turity as a community that aspires to give back to its homeland

and be an agent of change and prosperity to America. Once again, many thanks to all of you who showed up in great numbers and made the charity fundraiser to the benefit of young rural girls the great success that it was; and I encourage you to become involved and join us on the many exciting challenges ahead.

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AMPA Management message: Word from Karim Sijlamassi

MARCH is AMPA Networking Month.

AMPA members will be holding Networking Events in different Cities in March 2009. If you want to attend, help organize or have suggestions...please see contact emails below.If your city is not mentioned and you are interested in organizing a Networking event,

Please email events@amp-usa.org

San Francisco, CA: karimchaqchaq@amp-usa.orgNew York, NewJersey: narjisrachad@amp-usa.orgLos Angeles, CA: karimsijlamassi@amp-usa.orgHouston,TX: adyelbouchra@amp-usa.orgWashington, DC: Imanebentaouet@amp-usa.orgAtlanta, GA: jbisbis@na.ko.comSeattle, WA: yazid@wama-us.orgCasablanca, Morocco: hicham@amp-usa.org

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Interview with Mr.Faouzi Chaabi

by Nada Elmajdoub

Association of Moroccan Professionals in America

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Interview with Mr.Faouzi Chaabiby Nada Elmajdoub

1) M. Chaabi, votre succès en tant que businessman accompli n’est pas un secret, à quoi attribuez vous votre réussite professionnelle?Je ne me considère pas encore glorieux de ma réussite dans le monde des affaires. Chaque nouvelle entreprise est un challenge qui interpelle efforts et rigueur et il reste tant à faire. Au delà des prouesses que l’on accomplit on conserve l’expérience,la référence originelle du succès. Je dois en partie mes repères en tant qu’homme d’affaires aux différents projets menés dans le conglomérat familial, soit 60 ans de péripéties managériales et une multitude de Business cases à l’échelon national etinternational. C’est aussi d’une vision globale grâce aux fonctions pluridisciplinaires que j’occupe, que je pourrais éventuellement me targuer aujourd’hui mais c’est dans l’action locale que je concentre mon énergie. Il est peut-être là le secret !

2) Que pensez vous des accords de libre échange entre le Maroc et les USA? Depuis la signature de ces accords en juillet 2004 et le coup d’envoi de leur implémentation en Janvier 2006, comment qualifieriez vous leur impact sur les entreprises marocaines?On peut d’ores et déjà affirmer les effets positifs d’un accord qui consolide l’accès du Maroc au marché mondial. Les ALE serviront à améliorer la compétitivité de notre économie et du tissu industriel local, à activer les réformes en matière de commerce extérieur, à lifter les modèles d’organisation des entreprises marocaines et à injecter en l’occurrence un nouveau souffle dans notre économie.D’autre part je tiens à souligner qu’il est plus question de coopération sur un spectre large que d’un simple accord doua-nier réservé aux échanges commerciaux. L’optimisation de l’association entre les deux pays activera indubitablement le processus de réformes économiques et politiques dans lequel le Maroc s’est engagé. Néanmoins à l’heure d’aujourd’hui cet échange se résume encore à des actions timides dont on maîtrise partiellement la portée. Il faut trouver le point d’équilibre et inscrire cette coopération dans la durabilité.

3) Par quel moyen pensez vous, que nos entreprises nationales pourraientprofiter au maximum de ces accords ?Connaître la physionomie du point de vue marketing, logistique et procédural des produits qui serviront de balises aux voies d’accès du marché américain. Les avantages que présente cet accord doivent être proportionnels aux efforts consentis.Information, campagne de promotion et de communication, e-commerce, lobbying sont le kit indispensable au succès de cet échange. Aussi j’insiste sur le rôle que devront tenir les marocains installés aux E.U en tant que VRP et coordi-nateurs decette action sans oublier le fait qu’ils représentent l’investisseur au potentiel distingué pour le marché marocain.

4) Comment voyez vous le rôle qu’AMPA pourrait jouer dans le renforcement des relations d’échange entre le Maroc et les états unis? Et nous feriez vous le grand honneur de participer a notre prochaine édition de Moroccan American Bridges à Casablanca en Juin 2009 prochain?Constituer un centre de veille et d’information à même de fournir des données sur le commerce bilatéral, réaliser des études sur les économies concernées, soutenir l’intégration des différentes actions, collaborer pour la prospérité mu-tuelle, accompagner les parties prenantes sur le terrain, vulgariser la réglementation. Un cahier des charges consé-quent que je serai ravi de découvrir à travers de nouvelles actions à votre prochaine édition.

5) Ynna holding est un groupe dont la renommée dépasse les limites nationales. C’est aujourd’hui une ré-férence au sein de la mosaïque industrielle marocaine. Votre groupe doit sûrement compter à son actif des talents marocains recrutés de tous bords. Est ce que vos entreprises ont une stratégie particulière vis a vis des compétences marocaines vivant à l’étranger?En matière d’embauche de compétences marocaines à l’étranger, Ynna Holding soutient d’abord le talent. Cela passe par le savoir faire et la connaissance des milieux. Nous sommes présents sur différents secteurs, l’industrie étant la pierre angulaire de notre activité. Nous comptons à notre actif plusieurs ressources marocaines avec des parcours très différents à l’étranger. Nos entreprises recrutent via des opérations de relations publiques à l’international, salons, roadshows et autres initiatives de ce genre.

Featured Members Jawad Bisbis is a global marketing manager at The Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta. He joined the corporate company of-fice early 2007. Prior to that he worked with Coca-Cola in Africa in various markets (Morocco, Egypt, Kenya) both in strategic and field marketing as-signments. Before joining the company, he started his career in Morocco with P&G. He has a graduate management degree from Euromed business school in France. He’s married and has 1 child.

His hobbies are cinema, football (soccer) and golf. He also enjoys travelling and getting to know new places, people and cultures. He’s originally from Casablanca.

Jawad Bisbis

Karim Latifi Karim is currently a Sales Director with Toshiba America in Northern California with over 17 years experience in the Office Technology industry. Prior to Toshiba Karim spent over 12 years with Sharp Electronics as a Major Account Consultant working primarily with Government Agencies, the Medical field and School districts.

He came to America in 1990 and after a Baccalaureate of Economics in Casa-blanca and being part of the first graduating class of IGA (Institut de Gestion Appliquee) he went to Lyon (France) where he studied Business with an em-phasis on accounting at the University of Jean Moulin.

He currently lives in the beautiful Wine Country north of San Francisco; Karim is a member of AMPA and is looking forward working with the association for harnessing the expertise and talent of our professional Moroccan community in North America as well as contribute to development of our beloved home land.

Omar Elhajoui is currently a Senior Integration Engineer at the 787 program with the Boeing Company, where he is in charge of multiple Product Development complex projects. Previous to this position, he was a Design Engineer within the 787 Avionics Team, where he worked on the all new central computing architecture of the Dreamliner.

Prior to joining Boeing, Mr. Elhajoui held positions with OQO Incorporated, a San Fran-cisco based startup company that specializes in ultra small hand held PCs. He headed the board thermal analysis and testing group.

Before stepping into the start up world, Omar spent three years in Thomson Financial where he assumed various roles, mainly in IT Operations.

Before crossing the Atlantic, Omar spent few years working with IAM (currently Maroc Telecom) and Moroccan Ministry of Fisheries, co-leading the fishing fleet GPS tracking system.

He is a member of Solid State Society (IEEE) and an active contributor to the renowned Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) of the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Omar is fluent in Arabic, French, Russian and English. A native of Fez, Morocco, Omar holds a BSEE from National Aviation University in Kiev, MSEE from San José State, and is expecting his MBA from the University of Washington in June of 2009. Omar can be reached at: omar.elhajoui@gmail.com

Omar Elhajoui

Interview with YMEC 2007: soumaya Yacoubi

Can you tell us something about yourself? What is Vitaclub and how did you develop the idea?My name is Soumaya Yaakoubi and I’m originally From the North of Morocco where I started my university studies. In 1989 I got married at the age of 20 and left Morocco for Switzerland to finish my studies at Sciences University in Geneva. I also started my professional career there at the United Nations Environment Pro-gram (UNEP). After six years in Geneva, my husband and I came back to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, and I started working for the World Health Organization (WHO). At the same time, and for fun, I was organizing events and artistic exhibi-tions, applying what I had learned in Geneva where I was member of a Diplomatic Club. I did this for two years in Rabat until we moved to England for four years. Once in London, I decided to study Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Mar-keting. The director of the School had a travel agency and all our work was kind of related to this industry. That’s how I discovered my interest in this industry, and combined it with my passion for travel, wellness and health. I started thinking of opening the TRAVEL CLUB for VITALITY (later VITA CLUB Travel & Events) offering what a traveller could dream of in terms of discoveries and enjoyments for his wellness and good health. After I received my diploma, we moved to Ankara, Turkey for two years, then to Tokyo, Japan. Change helped me to understand different cultures and broadened my vision; moreover, I learned different concepts of quality and understood the importance of delivering quality services. At 35 years old, I decided to settle down again in my home country, and returned to work with the WHO in Rabat, then with UNDP until finally talking with a friend about realizing my dream of starting a travel agency.

What is VITA CLUB? Vita Club is a travel agency that considers its clients well-being first and lets them discover unexpected Morocco! We try through our programs to communicate to our customers that they deserve the best treatment and the best quality services. Once they buy from us they become members of a club which works to achieve the well being of its members. It’s more than just travel it’s a pampered journey. In 2009, we are programming long week-end packages every month to relax, escape stress and try new ways of living. We think our clients worth it. Please check our special packages at www.vitavoyages.com

How did YMEC help launch Vitaclub?Actually, YMEC was the booster, the competition that let me gain confidence in myself as an entrepreneur and in my project as a viable one. The fact that it was judged by experts as the winner of YMEC 2007 was very signifi-cant to me. And the prize of $3,000 went as the first payment for the VITA CLUB web site. The day after winning at YMEC, I announced to my colleagues at UNDP my decision. I am more than happy today to have done it and thankful to YMEC and AMPA to having encouraged it.

How is the future looking for Vitaclub?For the near future, we will continue in our efforts to gain new customers, new markets, to become known and to encourage people to try our services. Later, we hope to be able to offer a real original club for long stays along with the travel agency and continue our growth to serve our valued clients.

What is AMPA for you? Great network for great people, I hope someday I will be able to serve it in one way or another.

by Hicham Kabbaj

New York Event Coverage

New York Event Fundraiser

Quote from CSSF president

His Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Mo-rocco to the USA, kicked off the evening by addressing the at-tendance to emphasize on the importance of the associative action and praised AMPA for the key role it plays to reinforce the Moroccan-American friendship and business ties.

Echoing the Ambassador’s words, AMPA’s President Hicham Kabbaj, presented AMPA’s vision and stressed on the importance of tangible actions, the likes of the evening’s event, to raise funds and awareness towards helping Morocco achie-ve its developmental goals.

The attendance greatly enjoyed the fashion show that followed, which featured traditional Moroccan designer “Kaf-tans”. The auctioning of these dazzling works of Moroccan craftsmanship was instrumental in setting record level dona-tions. The Sefrioui-Badissi foundation also had a remarked participation through their graceful donation of 54 laptops to be distributed amongst the many CSSF centers throughout rural Morocco. After a very successful fundraiser that totaled upwards of $10,000.00, the event was concluded with an evening of Mo-roccan entertainment.

“…We were much exited to welcome you in Rabat and learn about your intention to helping us in our noble mission to provide education to young girls in Morocco…..That is way I say we don’t need to be thanked, because we are only doing our duty towards our country…..Many thanks to AMPA for coming forward and helping rural girls and Morocco as a whole”

CSSF: Rabat Press conference

AMPA held a press Conference on December 23, 2008 at the CSSF (Comite de Soutien a la Scolarisation des Filles rurales) office in Rabat. The proceeds of our New York Gala were presented to the CSSFPresident Ms. Aicha Khidani. Three young girls also represented the association; two of them are currently benefiting from the program, and the third is a college student who graduated thanks to CSSF. Ms. Khidani thanked all the Media and partners present. She also expressed her gratitude to AMPA for raising money and aware-ness on rural education. The US Ambassador Mr. Riley said that both him and his wife are personally involved in Girls’ education although it «faces big chal-lenges». He commended CSSF for their work that «goes beyond pro-viding a foyer, but also hope to these young girls». He also congra-tulated AMPA and its members for their initiatives and involvement in Morocco.

AMPA President, Hicham Kabbaj, thanked and congratulated CSSF team for their tremendous work with these young girls; he also emphasized and thanked AMPA members’ involvement in Moroccan education. Bouchra Adyel then presented the $11,371.78 check along with the laptops donated by Sefrioui-Badissy foun-dation to CSSF. This was a great exposure to both AMPA and CSSF in the Moroccan Media. We will post all articles on our website under «Press». The Press Conference was also

on 2M Nightly news (French& Arabic):http://www.2m.tv/video/?id= 2189 (12th Minute)

AMPA & CSSF Management Teams

Did you know?...the guide to myAMPA platorm is published on the website, you can access the forum, library, exchange messages with other AMPA members, etc... http://www.ampusa.org/pdf/MyAMPAuserguide.pdf

CSSF: Rabat Press conference AMPA MEMBERS ACTIVITIES: Le Citoyen Marocain

Bouchra Adyel (VP Communication) and Nada Elmajdoub (Mentoring Program Coordinator) are active members of AMPA. As young Moroccan professionals in the US, they have participated in va-rious projects and associations. One of those projects is “Le Citoyen Marocain”. It has a very unique and powerful message which engaged these members to join the LCM team and seek a better future for Mo-rocco. Here is what they say about LCM…

1. Define « Le Citoyen Marocain » Project Bouchra: Le Citoyen Marocain (LCM) is a very ambitious project foun-ded by Mr. Salmane Belayachi. It seeks to stimulate the engagement of our young generation in the development of Morocco. As a very active member of my Moroccan and American communities, I stron-gly believe that No matter how small your contribution is to your surroundings, the outcome is always far greater than expected. It takes strong and determined citizens to take initiative and act rather than react to their environments. I see unlimited potential in Moroccans to have their “Moroccan Dream”. Le Citoyen Marocain is the right project at the right time to reintroduce the basic rule of any national development.

2. What are LCM Objectives?Bouchra: Le Citoyen Marocain seeks to adopt volunteering, commitment and competition as the image of true citi-zenship, sound development process and the definition of the new patriotism. To reinforce the Moroccan-Morocco partnership by considering that relationship to be the fundamental basis of any development effort. To organize a march from Layoune to Tangiers, intended to sensitize Moroccans by calling them to an unconditional commitment to the natio-nal development project. And finally, to create through this new patriotism, an invisible hand serving as a guide as well as a triggering agent of the development domino effect.

3. How did LCM start?Nada: On October 18th I got a call from Salmane. Back then I had no clue, that me pushing that little green button was going to determine my agenda for the following few months, perhaps even years as no one knows where an adventure as extraordinary as LCM could take me. He first told me about all the conversations he had had back home, this past summer, with several people and how they all felt somewhat “detached “from the Moroccan cause, how they didn’t feel a strong sense of belonging to their country, how they just didn’t care that much. Knowing Salmane, I could imagine how that bothered him as he was famous for his immeasurable passion for Morocco. All his projects, articles, blogs and notes attest of an exceptionally high patriotism, an awareness of the Moroccan potential and a pride of belonging to a unique nation. He wanted to walk to share his message of Hope and Optimism, to persuade all Moroccans to put Morocco in the very heart of their daily preoccupation and he couldn’t think of a better way than to go meet them face to face and share his message.I have to say that no matter how unusually interesting this idea first seemed to me, I stopped for a second and realized the evidence: I could not think of better fit to this particular job than him. So I gave him my go-ahead and as a conse-quence earned the huge privilege of running the LCM project.

4. Who helped you along the way?Nada: Two weeks after Salmane’s phone call, I left for Dallas to attend “Spotlight on Morocco” where I had the chance to meet with his Excellency Mr. Mekouar. I took the chance to approach him about LCM which he expressed a lot of enthusiasm for, made clairvoyant observations, then asked me to send him a description of the project via email.A week later Salmane was having his first meeting with Mrs. Rheljari and Mrs Afifi, at the Moroccan embassy in DC to jump start LCM. During that meeting, it was suggested to get our project adopted by a recognized Moroccan association in the US. I could not think of a better entity than MAC , not only was I a board member but Driss Temsamani, the pre-sident of MAC was also amongst the first people to adhere to the message and join the team.It only took an email to get an overwhelming response from the majority of the board, and the special interest of a few like Mr. Hassan Samghouni who readily offered their help and support in many capacities. On December 15th, while in Morocco, I received a txt message from Driss saying:”Urgent, call me”; which I did right away, only to hear him announce M.Chaabi’s interest to sponsor the entire project. A few days and phone calls later, I met with him and his PR director, Mrs. Hanane Bakali to kick off our collaboration. Almost at the same time, Khadija, Jawaher and Hassan were enga-ging in several LCM workshops with Focus groups here in the US bringing valuable ideas to the table. My job was to combine their suggestions with the outcomes of my work sessions in Morocco to assemble the LCM puzzle. After Driss initiated contact with M. Ameur minister in charge of Moroccans abroad, I had the chance to meet him and discuss the mission at his office in Rabat. It was concluded with his promise to do everything in his power to facilitate what needs to

AMPA MEMBERS ACTIVITIES: Le Citoyen Marocain

be completed for Salmane’s journey to take place. In only 9 weeks time, LCM team had managed to get the support of the Moroccan embassy, the Moroccan American civil society, the Moroccan government and a Private sponsor. As far as I’m concerned, that constitutes the irrefutable proof that the Domino Effect, backbone of our project, is indeed a reality.

5. How will LCM be implemented in Morocco? Bouchra: Le Citoyen Marocain is more than a walk from Laayoune to Tangiers. It is a march through which Salmane will convey his citizenship message to Moroccans along the way. It is also a series of round table sessions in key cities to incorporate the citizenship and development message in different themes (Education, Immigration, Arts& Culture, Economy, and Politics). Finally, once the walk is completed, it is a legacy to carry on. Le Citoyen Marocain will start a new phase which consists of creating LCM Chapters throughout Morocco. We acknowledge that this project is very ambitious, but we strongly believe in the message and thanks to a wonderful and very committed executive team, we will accomplish our goals.

6. What is LCM’s long-term vision? Nada: The ultimate goal is to raise a generation of “Possibilitarians” that believe in the values of citizenship, active participation in public life, discard negative feelings, regain hope and take responsibility for their own faith. The first step to a major change has to be about mentalities and attitudes. We truly believe that once Moroccans become fully aware of their duties towards their country, and at the same time, of the crucial impact of each and every one of their actions; Morocco would become a better place for every single one of us.

For more details about “Le Citoyen Marocain” and how you can contribute, please visit: www.lecitoyenmarocain.com

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Moroccan Mobile Consulate

Moroccan Mobile Consulate in Seattle,WA on Feb 21st, 2009

WAMA is proud to announce that the Moroccan Mobile Consulate will be coming to Seattle WA to serve our community in the northwest. The Moroccan Consulate encourages you community to visit their web page to download the necessary forms/applications. We are including a requirement list which we received from the Moroccan Consulate. Please read it carefully and be sure to be prepared. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to sub-mit your question(s) via the registration form or email us at contact@wama-us.org. We have also made a local phone number available to you to call should you have any ques-tions. Please note that the phone number is voice mail only. It will be checked frequently during the day and we will return your calls. Therefore, it is very important that you leave your full name/call back number in your message. Please speak slowly and clearly. We do encourage the web form for submitting questions, however, if you feel more comfortable calling please don’t hesitate to do so.Phone number to call is: 206 285 1345

Event Details:

What: Moroccan Mobile Consulate will be in Seattle WA When: Saturday Feb 21, 2009 Time: 8:30 am PST to 6:00 pm PST Where: Fisher Plaza (land marks: Komo4 TV building/across the street from Space needle) 140 4th Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 Fisher security (206) 404-8000 (call this number if you’re lost) There is a parking garage under the building from John Street side. It is secure and it costs $5.00 all day. If you park in the garage under the building look for sings to public elevator then you want to be on «*1» main floor.

WAMA Contact info:

Email: contact@wama-us.org Phone: 206 285 1345 Online Registration

ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are an AMPA Member who lives in Morocco,

please email events@ampusa.org to be added to our Morocco List.

We will have more events and announcements pertaining to our members

in Morocco in the coming year.

Biladi News

Morocco in $1.8 b in building deal with Arab group by ReutersRABAT, Jan 30 - Morocco initiated on Friday a deal with an Arab consortium to build a

A New City Growing in Morocco

As with many countries, Morocco has been working towards finding solutions for their housing problems. As the population has been increasing over the years, there has been a housing shortfall and in 2002, a new trade zone was created in anticipation of the launch of a new project named Al Boughaz. The trade zone has grown to four hundred businesses, creating approxima-tely forty thousand job opportunities. The Al Boughaz project is the construction of a new city that will not only alleviate the housing dilemma but give hope of em-ployment and a new life to many as well as tourism opportunities. The new city is set to be called Ch’rafate and will be constructed on a 1 300 hectare piece of land that has been allocated for the building of the city. King Mohammed VI of Morocco recently announced the launch of the construction work that is estimated to be completed by the year 2020. An industrial area is also in-cluded into the plans, opening the doorway for businesses and industry moguls for new factories and business premises, and pro-viding the new residents of Ch’rafate with jobs. Located between the cities of Tetuan and Tangiers, the city of Ch’rafate will be conveniently situated and with new roads being provided, it will create an improved road network for this region of Morocco. The massive project will be overseen by Al Omrane Al Boughaz, a well known develo-pment company, together with internatio-nal property developers and national com-panies for assistance. Tanger-Med Port will be responsible for the housing develop-ment and the entire project will cost an es-timated $2.9 billion. A hundred and thirty thousand people will benefit from the thir-ty thousand housing units and developers have ensured that the buildings and pro-cedures are environmentally friendly and that all technical and geological standards have been met. Not only will residents gain from the industrial area and the housing development, but they will be able to take advantage of the planned tourism zone, green areas and handicrafts complex. The city of Ch’rafate will be a new start for many families, in various different ways. Housing developments in M’diq, Tangier, Fndeq and Tetouan are scheduled to begin in 2020.Houti and two of the original founders own 34 per cent of the bank.

Morocco’s aeronautics industry continues to grow By Sarah TouahriZodiac Aerospace Maroc is investing 135 million dirhams towards a new aeronau-tical project in Aïn Johra, confirming Mo-rocco’s advances in attracting investors and promoting the aeronautical sector. By Sarah Touahri for Magharebia in Rabat – 30/01/09Amidst fears of a slowing global econo-my, Morocco’s burgeoning aeronautics industry continues to attract foreign in-vestment. The ministries of new techno-logies and finance signed a deal on Mon-day (January 26th) in Rabat with Zodiac Aerospace Maroc to begin research and production of aeronautical equipment at the Aïn Johra industrial park, for an in-vestment of around 135 million dirhams. Minister of Trade, Industry and New Tech-

nologies Ahmed Reda Chami said that this latest agreement confirms Morocco’s calling to be a platform for investment in aeronau-tical trades. The Minister added that this agreement will allow the creation of 250 direct jobs, a large number of which will be engineering posts. «A strong presence in national engineering through this great project shows that Mo-rocco has taken another step in the field of aeronautics, which will not stop simply at construction, but will also include engi-neering and design.» In the past few years, the sector has seen considerable develop-ment, growing from near-zero in 2000 to a 250 million dollar industry employing 7,000 people. Seven major areas employ about 75% of those currently working in the sec-tor: cabling, middle management, composi-tes, mechatronics, sheet metals, fitting and machining. «The rapid development in the sector has been carried forward by benchmark opera-tors in the sector, such as EADS, Boeing and SAFRAN, who have given Morocco credibi-lity as a destination,» said Chami. A number of companies in Morocco are suppliers to European and American-based companies placing orders. Morocco is among those countries where subcontracting has a pro-mising future. The aeronautical sector is characterized by a strong French presence. The chairman of the French Union of Metal-lurgical Trades and Industries, Frédéric Saint-Geoure, said that Morocco’s economic and industrial development strategy to support high added-value industrial sectors, such as aeronautics, can only encourage French companies to open other nearby markets. «The strength of the Moroccan aeronau-tical sector lies in that it has developed as a network where customers and suppliers are right next door to each other,» said Tho-mas Corbel, manufacturer of aircraft engine components for the Airbus A320 and A340. «With geographical proximity restricting logistical costs, aeronautics subcontractors in Morocco have what they need to deal with the downward pressure on costs.» Chairman of the Moroccan Space and Ae-ronautical Industries Group (GIMAS) Hamid Benbrahim El Andaloussi is delighted with the development of the sector, feeling that it could not be more competitive. «Morocco has very quickly realized the potential of the fledgling industry that is aeronautics, iden-tifying it as a top-priority strategic sector in its Emergence plan. Training is one of the keys to success in our development strategy for this sector.»

leisure complex at the cost of $1.8 billion, the country’s state news agency MAP said, quoting the tourism minister.MAP named the consortium partners who signed the letter of intent to set up the project at the Atlantic city of Es-saouira as Itmar Development Abu Dhabi Investment and Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance House.The initial accord was signed on the si-delines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, added MAP, quoting Tourism Minister Mohamed Boussaid as saying: «The importance of this project strengthens Morocco’s in-vestment attractiveness in the tourism business.»The planned project would involve buil-ding a resort of healthcare and leisure facilities over 270 hectares in Essaouira, one of Morocco’s main coastal tourism sites, MAP added.The tourism sector is Morocco’s primary foreign currency earner and main em-ployer after labor-intensive agriculture and the textile industry.It is also the country’s main attraction for foreign investment, with high-profile real estate and tourism projects financed by Arab Gulf investors worth some $20 billion.Analysts and people in the tourism in-dustry fear that a slowdown in tourism caused by economic recession in Europe and elsewhere might derail Morocco’s ambition to develop its tourism industry.The government hopes to increase the number of tourists visiting Morocco to 10 million in 2010 from 8 million last year. (Reporting by Lamine Ghanmi; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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