Morocco’s prime minister revealed that King Mohammed VI has tasked Minister of State for Human Rights Mustapha Ramid of mulling measures on the implementation of the national democracy and human rights plan that has been adopted by the government.
PM Saadeddine Othmani said in his opening remarks at the cabinet session on Thursday that Ramid would “cooperate with all partners inside and outside the government” to accomplish his task.
The plan is a sign that Morocco is improving democratically and in human rights, said Othmani.
He expressed “strong willingness to overcome all difficulties and human rights-related problems.”
Ramid, a top official at the Justice and Development Party that is leading the coalition government, had for weeks boycotted cabinet sessions to protest the failure to publish the democracy and human rights plan in the official gazette.
But on Thursday, Ramid announced during a seminar on human rights that he would end his boycott after King Mohammed VI issued instructions to take the practical measures in implementing the government's plan.
Ramid told the seminar, which was held at the economics and social sciences faculty in Casablanca, that the King has shown great interest in implementing the national plan on democracy that was announced by the minister of state on December 14.
The plan includes a series of measures which the state has pledged to undertake to improve the country’s human rights situation.
