Casablanca – In line with their bilateral social security cooperation, Morocco and Belgium inked on Monday in Rabat a special agreement aimed at improving security, especially in terms of combating violence against women.
Signed in the presence of an array of government representatives, the agreement is part of broader efforts to deepen Morocco and Belgium’s bilateral cooperation, including the exchange of expertise and the sharing of experience in the security sector.
The convention was reached on the project of “support to security services in the fight against violence against women,” and it is aimed at formalizing the two countries’ joint commitment to combating all forms of violence against women and striving for better care of abuse victims, the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) reported on Monday.
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The Morocco-Belgium agreement is at the crossroads of four interconnected targets, MAP added. The first axis is related to the improvement of information and sensitization by security services of women victims for better management.
The second deals with the management of the reception, listening, support, and accompaniment of victims. The third target entails monitoring the care of women and girls who have been victims of violence, while the fourth focuses on leveraging the efforts of many partners in their care.
Diplomatic relations between Morocco and Belgium are more than a century old, and the two countries have repeatedly pledged in recent years to further consolidate and deepen their “strategic” partnership on a wide range of fronts.
Since the signing of their first bilateral agreement in 1860, relations between Rabat and Brussels have constantly grown in the past decades.
As they seek to further their cooperation in line with the Morocco-EU partnership framework, the two countries have notably solidified their cooperation in a variety of sectors, including justice, security, counter-terrorism, and migration.
