GRENADA, SAPID, March 8 (NNN-MAP) — King Mohammed VI has reiterated Morocco’s commitment “to reinvigorating the construction of the Maghreb on credible, serious foundations”, and building a common future based on respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as good neighbourliness”.
In a message on Sunday to the first Morocco-EU summit in this city in southern Spain, he said: “Morocco calls upon the other parties concerned to respond to the appeals of the (United Nations) Security Council and seek a political settlement to the artificial dispute over my country’s territorial integrity, based on the Moroccan initiative which offers wide-ranging autonomy to the (Western) Sahara region, within the framework of the Kingdom’s sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity.”
The king reaffirmed Morocco’s support for the Union for the Mediterranean, saying that he was convinced it would be in a position to explore all that the Mediterranean had to offer and come up with appropriate solutions to the various social and economic challenges facing the Euro-Mediterranean region.
In this regard, the king said, the Union for the Mediterranean would be expected to develop closer co-operation mechanisms at sub-regional level, particularly with the Arab Maghreb Union, “a forum which offers vast prospects in this particular area”.
“The Kingdom of Morocco’s ambition to contribute to making the Mediterranean a viable, homogeneous space is second only to the urgent need it perceives to launch a truly strategic partnership between Africa and Europe, based on mutual interests, shared challenges and the need to build a common future,” the King said in the message read by Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi.
The king added that “the increasingly inter-linked geopolitical and security interests” of the two continents, coupled with their intense economic, human and cultural relations, called for an innovative partnership which took into consideration the geopolitical specifics of each of the African continent’s sub-regions.
“The security, political, human and economic agenda of the Sahel and Sahara region and of the Atlantic require common, concerted, solidarity-based approaches,” he said. — NNN-MAP
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