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The Ambassador, Everlasting Consultant of the Kingdom to the AU and the UNECA, Mohamed Arrouchi, who spoke on the Excessive Stage Convention on the twentieth anniversary of the PSC, reiterated that Morocco, sturdy in its expertise and conscious of the the dimensions of the safety challenges in Africa, will spare no effort, in live performance with the member states of the PSC, to assist lay new, stable and lasting foundations in favor of a steady, affluent and united Africa.
Mr. Arrouchi, who leads the Moroccan delegation composed particularly of the Ambassador of Morocco to the United Republic of Tanzania and the Union of the Comoros, Zakaria El Goumiri, burdened that for the reason that Kingdom has been a member, the PSC has seen notable progress by way of achievements made throughout its 20 years of existence.
The Moroccan diplomat cited, amongst different completed achievements of the PSC, the help of nations going via durations of disaster and instability and of a number of international locations within the conduct of their electoral processes in an effort to assure their transparency and the strengthening of political governance. .
In all battle and disaster conditions in Africa, the PSC has, via its varied selections and declarations, taken political and sensible measures to handle the challenges, Mr. Arrouchi added, reaffirming that the African Peace and Safety Structure (APSA) and the African Governance Structure (AGA) are two platforms that allow the PSC to adequately discharge its function.
Six years after its return to its institutional household, the election of the Kingdom of Morocco for 2 successive mandates, respectively of two years then 3 years (2018-2020 then 2022-2025), to the PSC of the AU, testifies to the boldness, credibility, esteem and recognition given to the African Imaginative and prescient of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, could God help Him, and to the motion carried out, underneath the Management of the Sovereign, to allow Africa to consider in its potential and construct a extra promising future, highlighted Mr. Arrouchi.
They attest to Moroccan experience unanimously acknowledged, in Africa and world wide, within the promotion of peace and stability, and represent a consolidation of its efforts aimed toward contributing, in a constructive and constructive method, to safety in Africa. These two mandates are additionally the crowning achievement of his actions undertaken since his return to the pan-African group, underlined the Moroccan diplomat.
This can be a recognition of the energetic function of the Kingdom, of its credible and united initiatives in favor of the soundness of Africa and the well-being of the African citizen, famous Mr. Arrouchi.
The Moroccan diplomat reaffirmed that the Kingdom has continually advocated for peace and safety in Africa, an goal that may solely be achieved via political stability, respect for the rules of non-interference, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness, in addition to the consolidation of the rule of regulation in Africa.
Morocco, since its return to the AU, and through its two mandates throughout the PSC, is resolutely dedicated to this train of strengthening the executive and monetary governance of the Council in addition to the credibility of the intergovernmental course of with a view to “guarantee collective help for its selections,” stated Mr. Arrouchi.
The credibility of Morocco’s dedication and motion is confirmed via its substantial, diligent and irreversible contribution to the AU’s “Peace Fund”, the Moroccan diplomat burdened, including that the Kingdom has performed an important function as a supplier of stability in Africa and past, via its energetic participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations, its help for African international locations on the political entrance and its efforts to fight terrorism and violent extremism and hate speech, via help for brotherly African international locations in issues of religious safety.
Morocco shared, with the PSC, as with the members of the AU, its huge expertise within the areas of battle decision, peacebuilding, meals safety, environmental safety, sustainable growth and humanitarian operations. Its imprint is mirrored in varied outcomes of this vital decision-making physique of the AU, added the Moroccan diplomat.
Conscious that the solely security-based method has demonstrated its limits, Morocco requires the adoption of the multidimensional method primarily based on the peace, safety and growth nexus, famous Mr. Arrouchi, recalling the group, in October 2022, in Tangier, of the primary continental political convention of the AU on the theme “The promotion of the Peace, Safety and Improvement Nexus”, resulting in the Tangier Declaration, adopted by the AU Summit of February 2023.
As well as, the worldwide initiative of His Majesty the King to advertise entry of the Sahel States to the Atlantic Ocean exhibits Morocco’s dedication to a preventive, real looking and multidimensional method for peace in Africa, focusing particularly on the areas most affected by instability and highlighting the crucial of regional integration and the method of sustainable growth, underlined Mr. Arrouchi.
Since 2022, Morocco has organized a specialised coaching program yearly for African Union electoral observers. This initiative demonstrates Morocco’s dedication to guaranteeing the success of electoral processes in Africa and selling democracy on the continent, added the Moroccan diplomat.
Morocco launched the theme of transitional justice among the many subjects of curiosity of the CPS, in mild of its nationwide expertise, which stays a acknowledged mannequin on this space, he famous, recalling that the Kingdom has continually advocated for a holistic and plural method, which mixes battle and prevention to face the scourge of recruitment and legal use of kid troopers.
Morocco advocated for together with well being safety among the many important themes of the PSC, in view of its relations with peace and stability in African international locations and has taken important initiatives within the space of maritime safety, particularly by bringing the PSC to acknowledge its pioneering function within the growth of tasks centered on the Atlantic space, particularly the method of African Atlantic States (Rabat course of), which requires strengthening the hyperlinks of cooperation and integration between African international locations bordering the Atlantic, to consolidate peace and stability and shared prosperity within the area, Mr. Arrouchi reaffirmed.
The Kingdom of Morocco has dedicated itself, with all accountability, throughout the framework of the PSC to advertise the UN agenda “Ladies, Peace and Safety”. It has deployed all efforts and means for the implementation of worldwide decision 1325 of the Safety Council, famous the Moroccan diplomat.
Mr. Arrouchi additional burdened that Morocco has deployed important diplomatic efforts in mediation in regional conflicts, affirming its function as facilitator and promoter of peace, in help of the mandate of the PSC.
On this African institutional framework, Morocco advocated for selling the function of training and youth in sustaining peace and safety in Africa and in stopping conflicts, added the Moroccan diplomat.
This Excessive Stage Symposium for the twentieth anniversary of the PSC is underneath the theme “20 years of the AU PSC as a everlasting decision-making physique: The subsequent 20 years of the peace and safety we wish”.
This twentieth anniversary is a chance to conduct a collective reflection throughout the CPS to evaluate the effectiveness of this physique in relation to its mandate (prevention, administration and backbone of conflicts).
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