Manila, April 10 -- The Philippines and Morocco marked the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations on April 10, with Manila hoping for a more robust and strategic partnership with Rabat in the coming years.

In an interview, Philippine Ambassador Leslie Baja called 2025 a milestone year as the two states celebrate five decades of friendship where cooperation in people-to-people, economic, and political fields are much closer and stronger.

"One can only hope that we can have a stronger and more strategic partnership in the next 50 years, I think we have done the spade work in the last five and we can use the last 50 years as foundation to build an even greater partnership between our two countries in the next 50 years," Baja said....