Rabat- United Nations Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour, acknowledged Morocco’s role in addressing migration-related issues on Tuesday in Marrakech.
Rabat- United Nations Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour, acknowledged Morocco’s role in addressing migration-related issues on Tuesday in Marrakech.
Arbour discussed Morocco’s migration policy during talks with Morocco’s Minister of Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, prior to the 5th Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration, which opened today.
The event convenes ministers and high-level representatives from the European Union and Africa, and will feature the official adoption of the Marrakech Declaration and the Marrakech Action Plan.
Morocco’s role in intercontinental migration has grown, as it is increasingly viewed as a destination country, in addition to a transit nation.
Arbour also welcomes the National Policy on Immigration and Asylum in 2013. This policy was launched in September 2013, under the instructions of King Mohammed VI.
In addition, Marrakech will host the intergovernmental conference on international migration in December, which will see the adoption of the global compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.
The global compact seeks to address human rights-related and developmental aspects of international migration.
The World Forum on Migration and Development will also take place in Marrakech prior to the intergovernmental conference on December 5-7, 2018.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mounia Boucetta said in Marrakech that time has come to handle migration in the continent, calling on European partners to offer more support to African nations in their efforts to address the migration-related issues.
