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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Tuesday held talks with visiting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the king’s office said in a statement.
Guterres expressed his gratitude to the host for the successful organization in Morocco of the Intergovernmental Conference on the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the statement said.
Guterres hailed Morocco’s constructive role in boosting south-south cooperation and the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and climate change, it said.
The UN chief also praised Morocco’s unwavering commitment to peacekeeping operations, mainly by deploying the important contingents of the Moroccan armed forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, it added.
They also discussed the situation in the Maghreb region and the African continent.
On the Western Sahara dispute, the Moroccan king reiterated to Guterres “the support of Morocco for efforts made by the secretary general and his personal envoy to reach a final political solution to this regional dispute.”
