Morocco Advocates for Pragmatic, Flexible Multilateralism in Global Health

"Morocco has fully embraced all initiatives aimed at adapting the multilateral system to the complexity of the challenges of the contemporary world, defending the idea of a solidary, pragmatic, uninhibited, flexible and fact-based multilateralism," Nasser Bourita said during a virtual ministerial meeting of the Alliance for Multilateralism focused on the theme "Strengthening the Multilateral Health Architecture".

In line with the vision of King Mohammed VI, Morocco has always advocated a "primarily solidary" multilateralism and called for special attention to the particular challenges of Africa, the minister said, recalling that the sovereign has launched an initiative at the level of heads of state aimed at establishing an operational framework to support African states in the various phases of pandemic management.

Committed to the implementation of a new international health security system based on the coherence of decisions and the pooling of resources, Morocco will host in Marrakech with Rwanda, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, the first high-level meeting on diplomacy for health security and emergency preparedness, under the joint high patronage of HM the King and His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, he said.

Morocco fully supports the initiative launched by H.E. Dr. Teodoro Ribera Neumann (Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs) to establish a new flexible legal instrument to ensure the health security of all, and is ready to contribute to it by sharing its national experience in pandemic management, added the head of Moroccan diplomacy.

"The pandemic is the ferment of a new multilateral system. The principles that animate the Alliance for Multilateralism make it the ideal framework for thinking about the ways of reforming multilateralism and the UN," Nasser Bourita concluded.