India, Morocco turning old ties into strategic partnership

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New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) India's relations with Morocco got a major revival with the visit of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid last week that also underscored the strategic and eco**mic importance of the **rth African country. India's ties with the pretty Mediterranean nation date back to the 14th century when Tangiers-born world traveller Ibn Batuta came and lived here and wrote extensively about the country and its people. Khurshid, the first Indian foreign minister to visit the Maghreb nation, held talks in capital Rabat before visiting Fez, Marrakesh and Casablanca, and also had an audience with King Mohammed VI, a major protocol gesture from the country that is seeking to upgrade ties to with India to "strategic partnership". Morocco was the first stop in Khurshid's three-nation week-long tour, that began Jan 30.

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