Marrakesh - US administrator for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Maria Contreras-Sweet hailed Friday in Marrakech Morocco’s important role in Africa's development, saying Kingdom is a gateway to develop the African continent.
On the sidelines of the 5th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (2014GES) in Marrakesh, the senior US official told MAP: "We are so pleased that Morocco came forward to sponsor this event. From the American view, Morocco is the gateway to develop the continent of Africa".
Contreras-Sweet said in Morocco, there are "so many men and women who have wonderful ideas" for entrepreneurial projects which can work both in Morocco and elsewhere in the world.
She further highlighted the important contribution of SMEs for economic recovery, noting that two-thirds of the jobs created in the United States are coming from the small and medium business community.