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BAKU – Moroccan Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hassan Hami has said there are no grounds for a replay of the Arab-like revolutions in his country.

Hami said in an exclusive interview with AssA-Irada that "we think that people have the right to request reforms and the government has to do whatever is possible".

"There is no problem in Morocco. We have undertaken the process of democracy for the last forty years, it’s not new. But we think in Morocco that democratic process should be undertaken step by step. It’s not a rush," Hami said, adding that people have to be "given a chance to adapt".

The ambassador said there is no country in the world where people are happy with all decisions taken by the government and opposition. In Morocco, he said, the process of transition started in the early 1990s. "Firstly, the reforms concerned family courts, granting women more rights. Another reform tackled in Morocco was the process of human rights reconciliation. A commission was set up to study what wrong happened, and the government recognized a lot of mistakes made in the past."

"This scrutiny is public. People express what they want to see the government do, and the government complies," he said.

Hami said that as part of this process the government also holds discussions with the opposition and civil society.

He added that there are still a lot of problems in Morocco and at times "people don’t agree with something", but the authorities try to take the most democratic decisions possible.