Moroccan Foreign Minister Urges Responsible Approach for Upcoming Arab Summit in Algeria

"The international and Arab context requires that the next Summit be held on the basis of a commitment to responsibility and far from any narrow calculations or outdated logic, by consolidating the necessary trust and respecting the roles of each party," Nasser Bourita said Tuesday in a speech delivered before the Council of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level during its 158th regular session.

He also called for "an objective reading of the reality of the Arab world, which is plagued by various internal and external differences and by external and internal maneuvers aimed at sowing division, supporting separatist tendencies, triggering border, ethnic, sectarian and tribal conflicts and consuming the region and exhausting its resources." "The main problem lies in the absence of a clear common vision to face these challenges, in a way that preserves the security, stability and territorial and national unity of the States," said the Moroccan Foreign Minister, stating that the time had come to lay the solid foundations of an integrated Arab partnership aimed at developing mechanisms for common Arab action and building a modern, renewable and effective collective system.

"This system must offer objective conditions for inter-cooperation capable of encouraging investment, rehabilitating the economy and the human factor, improving performance, facilitating involvement in the community of knowledge and communication and enshrining the principles of democracy and human rights, taking into account the particularities and components of each country and people and its independent will and pace of development," he added.