During 2024, Morocco was able to access more than 30 international and regional organizations, which confirms the international recognition of Moroccan expertise and competence in different fields.
Diplomatic success: Morocco’s edifying record within international and regional organizations testifies to the credibility and trust enjoyed by the Kingdom on a global scale, in accordance with the High Royal Instructions, for effective, pragmatic and united multilateral action aimed at addressing the different global challenges.
Morocco confirms its presence within international and regional organizations. The Kingdom recorded 100% success in its applications for vacant positions within international and regional organizations. In this sense, we note the success of the 67 Moroccan candidacies following intense electoral campaigns led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, in close coordination with the others. relevant ministries and departments. “These unprecedented successes were made possible thanks to a strategic and proactive approach, based on results, taking into account the diplomatic priorities of the Kingdom as defined by the High Guidelines of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God help him,” underlines the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Living Abroad in a press release.
During 2024, Morocco was thus able to access more than 30 international and regional organizations, which confirms the international recognition of Moroccan expertise and competence in different areas, among others, security, human rights , disarmament and economic development. At the security level, Morocco was elected by an overwhelming majority, for the first time, to the position of vice-president for the Africa region within the Executive Committee of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization). The Kingdom will host the 93rd session of the Interpol General Assembly in November 2025 in Marrakech. At the political level, Morocco was elected member of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission for the year 2025-2026. Within the League of Arab States (LAS), Morocco was also reappointed to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the LAS and was also reappointed as head of the representation of this regional organization in Berlin. In terms of human rights, the Kingdom was elected, for the first time, president of the Human Rights Council. It has, moreover, recorded a reinforced presence within the UN human rights architecture.
Morocco was thus re-elected to the Human Rights Committee for the period 2025-2028. He was reappointed a member of the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture for the period 2025-2028 and was elected for a second term on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Kingdom was also elected to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the period 2025-2028. In the field of disarmament, Morocco was elected president of the 6th Conference for the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, for the year 2025, and was also designated a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Forum to Combat Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (FTPRINT). In areas relating to economic development, Morocco was elected president of the board of directors of the World Food Program (WFP) and member of the Working Group responsible for reviewing the governance of this UN body, for 2024. It was also elected Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Fisheries Management of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in the agriculture (WASAG).
The Kingdom was elected member of the Program and Budget Committee of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for the period 2024-2025 and chair of the UN Special Intergovernmental Committee on Tax Cooperation . Morocco was also able to access key positions in the Arab region, notably as a member of the new Executive Bureau of the Council of Arab Ministers of Electricity, member of the Council of Arab Ministers of Tourism, member of the Council of Arab Ministers of water, and member of the Council of Arab Ministers of Housing and Urban Planning. At the level of the African Union, Morocco was elected to the post of secretary general of the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI). He was also elected as a member of the African Space Council of the African Space Agency of the African Union.
