Rabat – Today marks the final day of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s (PA) Spring Session, which convened approximately 260 participants from 29 NATO member countries and partner countries, including Morocco, to discuss international security and draft regional security reports.
Over the past three days, the NATO PA’s five committees have convened several security meetings attended by the Moroccan delegation, including that of the Political Committee and the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security, MAP reported.
In addition to specific regions of global security challenges, meeting topics also included North Korea nuclear talks and defense strategies to counter Russian military forces neighboring eastern NATO nations.
In particular, the Moroccan delegation raised the issue of humanitarian aid embezzlement in the Algerian Tindouf camps, where Moroccans are detained.
Today, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paolo Alli and NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council, Jens Stoltenberg, will convene the Plenary Session with high level officials from the Polish parliament and government.
The Moroccan parliamentary delegation also met with members of parliament from participating countries to strengthen security cooperation.
In 2017, Morocco and NATO entered into an agreement to strengthen cyber security, and in 2016, Morocco joined the NATO Interoperability Platform to promote increased interoperability between NATO and its partners in NATO-led operations and missions.
Since 1994, Morocco has also participated in the NATO Mediterranean dialogue. In this context, the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Ambassador Alejandro Alvargonzález, visited Morocco from May 21-23, to discuss further NATO-Morocco cooperation and a new Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme (IPCP).
