Jordan Times
Friday, December 30, 2005
Jordan to host Agadir Agreement's technical bureau
CAIRO (Petra) — Member countries of the Agadir Agreement on Thursday selected
Jordan to host a technical bureau that attends to the implementation of the
four-country agreement. The agreement was reached here during a meeting between
Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and his counterparts from Egypt, Morocco and
Tunisia. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the extraordinary session of
Arab foreign ministers that concluded at the Arab League headquarters the same
day. In the Agadir Declaration in 2001, the four countries expressed their
intention to set up a free trade area among themselves, and the formal agreement
was signed in February this year.