According to Moroccan media, the cooperation agreements on fisheries and environment were signed during the past weekend. Both are said to foresee first and foremost in an exchange of know-how and information and would be followed-up by so-called "new generation" agreements in the near future.

India would also have an interest in cooperating in the field of agriculture. India is Morocco's second largest trade partner, and nearly 40% of India's imports from Morocco consist of phosphates and derivates, making Morocco a major supplier to india's agricultural industry.

Morocco has occupied large parts of Western Sahara since 1975 and has since gone on to illegally exploit the territory's natural resources. Western Sahara's phosphate deposits and fish stocks are but two of the territory's resources that Morocco sells off as its own. It is to be expected that the cooperation agreements with India will be applied to the part of Western Sahara that is under Morocco's military control.