Praia, the capital of CAP-Vert, welcomes this Thursday, May 8 of the 5ᵉ Ministerial Reunion of the Atlantic African States of the African States (PEAA), a Moroccan initiative launched in August 2010. In his speech to the participants, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, said that the Atlantic African African partnership is not only a strategic, but also a political, human and human process. “Our duty is to make it a reality, a visible, tangible and lasting reality,” he said.
The head of diplomacy reiterated “the full determination of the kingdom of Morocco to advance this dynamic, to guarantee its continuity, and to strengthen its scope”.
“Atlantic Africa is today at an inflection point. It is scrutinized, courted, but also confronted with multiple, systemic and transversal threats, “noted Bourita. “It is not only a political ambition, but an imperative of sovereignty and development,” he said.
The first meeting of foreign ministers of the Atlantic African States was held in August 2010 in Rabat, followed by a second in November of the same year, also in the Moroccan capital. The initiative was then put in standby for 13 years, before being reactivated on June 8, 2022 in Rabat, then on September 23, 2022 in New York on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and finally on July 12, 2023 in Rabat.
The speech of King Mohammed VI of November 6, 2023, on the occasion of the Feast of Green Marche, placed the Atlantic African States at the heart of the African politics of Morocco. Since then, as Nasser Bourita recalled, several meetings followed: the Ministers of Justice in April 2024, the presidents of parliaments in February 2025, and the conference on maritime security and the fight against terrorism in January 2025.
These “milestones have expanded our perimeter of action and deepened the consistency of our approach” to make “the African Atlantic a lever of unity, a shared prosperity engine and a rampart of stability,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Morocco is also committed alongside the Sahel States to facilitate access to the Atlantic, an initiative supported by Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad.
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