Rabat – Moroccan minister delegate to the Foreign Minister, Youssef Amrani, called, on Sunday in Rabat, for “rethinking the relationship between the two shores of the Mediterranean”.
Amrani told a debate on “The UfM and the major challenges in the Mediterranean”, that the “new regional dynamics (in the south) requires us to rethink the relationship between the two shores of the Mediterranean.”
“Morocco will endeavour to strengthen neighborhood with the European countries based on new mechanisms and a new vision that takes into account a more ambitious and visionary reconfiguration of relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean,” he said at the debate organized as part of the eighth session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).
In this regard, he underlined that the revitalization of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) takes on “a strategic dimension,” adding that “Morocco seeks that the AMU be a central actor in the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
In the same context, Amrani recalled the call of HM King Mohammed VI to establish a new Mghreb order likely to meet the aspirations of the peoples of the Maghreb countries.
Concerning the Syrian crisis, he said that Morocco contributes, in its capacity as the sole Arab non-permanent member of the Security Council, to diplomatic efforts based on the Arab League initiative towards an immediate halt of all forms of violence and entering into political dialogue.
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