Rabat – Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita reiterated Morocco’s determination to continue encouraging regular migration and reduce the vulnerabilities of migrants.
Bourita renewed Morocco’s approach to migration during the opening of the first ministerial conference to discuss the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration.
The conference, hosted by Morocco, brings together UN member states who adopted the Global Compact at an intergovernmental conference in Marrakech on December 10, 2018.
More than 160 countries have officially adopted it.
Speaking during the opening of the ministerial meeting of champion countries for the implementation of the Marrakech Pact, Bourita emphasized that migration can “no longer be perceived as a threat.”
The Moroccan FM stressed that the conference needs to serve as an opportunity for all champion countries to implement actions, such as providing concrete orientations to advance the Marrakech Pact and to create momentum ahead of the first international Migration Review Forum. The event will take place in New York in May 2022.
The conference in Morocco also aims to support the UN agenda and provide the necessary “impetus for the reaffirmation of the 23 objectives of the Marrakech Pact,” Bourita added.
The UN migration pact sets global policy recommendations for better managing global migration. The 23 objectives also seek to improve international migration policy.
Speaking about Morocco’s approach to address migration challenges, Bourita said the country’s commitment “is in effect, a coherent application of our position on migration and of the principles that we defend.”
The Moroccan FM argued that the country seeks to make the ministerial meeting the launching pad for a “more global ripple effect, in its scope, in its objectives, and in its impact.”
Bourita’s remarks are in line with Morocco’s approach seeking to dispel misunderstandings on migratory phenomena.
In January, Bourita said that migration is natural.
“Nothing, not even a pandemic, will stop a natural phenomenon that has always existed and will continue to do so,” he said during a video conference on “migration and mobility in the Africa-Europe partnership” held on January 27.
