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Rabat – India has invited King Mohammed VI to participate in the fourth edition of the India-Africa Forum Summit, in a move reflecting the growing strategic partnership between Rabat and New Delhi and their professed shared interest in strengthening South-South cooperation.
The invitation was delivered by India’s Ambassador to Morocco, Sanjay Rana, during a meeting with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
According to the Indian embassy, Ambassador Rana conveyed an official invitation from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to King Mohammed VI to attend the upcoming India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-IV).
The ambassador also extended an invitation from India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to Bourita to participate in the summit, which is expected to focus on strengthening India’s engagement with African countries and expanding collaboration frameworks across the Global South.
Indian officials emphasized Morocco’s growing importance as a strategic African partner, particularly as New Delhi seeks to deepen political, economic, and development cooperation across the continent.
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The India-Africa Forum Summit has emerged as one of New Delhi’s main diplomatic platforms for engaging African nations, with discussions often centered on trade, investment, infrastructure, renewable energy, food security, digital transformation, and capacity building.
Morocco has increasingly positioned itself as a key regional partner for India in recent years, benefiting from its strategic geographic location linking Europe and Africa, as well as its expanding industrial and logistics infrastructure.
Relations between Rabat and New Delhi have steadily strengthened through cooperation in sectors including renewable energy, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, automotive manufacturing, information technology, and defense.
One of the pillars of bilateral economic cooperation has been the partnership between Morocco’s phosphate giant OCP Group and Indian companies, with Morocco serving as a major supplier of phosphate and fertilizer products to India’s agricultural sector.
