Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is expected to arrive this Sunday, January 21 in Algiers, where he will take part in the “5+5 Dialogue in the Western Mediterranean” ministerial conference, Maghreb Intelligence revealed on Friday.
Ten Mediterranean countries will attend the conference: Morocco, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Algeria, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia.
Attendees will discuss terrorism and security in the Sahel and the Middle East.
The conference will also cover inclusive economic and social development, youth and employment, migration, and sustainable development.
Bourita’s participation reflects Morocco’s willingness to cooperate with its eastern neighbor, despite recent statements by Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, who claimed that Morocco had engaged in “laundering cannabis money” through banks in the continent. .
The Western Mediterranean Forum, commonly referred to as the 5+5 Dialogue, officially launched in Rome in 1990 as an informal sub-regional forum which main aim was to foster relations between European countries and their Maghreb counterparts, according to the Western Mediterranean Forum.
