Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3:43 p.m.
Banjul – The 15th Summit Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Banjul in the Republic of Gambia, welcomed the initiatives of the Kingdom of Morocco at the regional and multilateral levels.
The Final Communiqué sanctioning the work of this Summit thus praised the efforts made by the Kingdom of Morocco to bring together the points of view of the Libyan protagonists.
The Summit welcomes the efforts made by the Kingdom to bring together the points of view of the Libyan protagonists and bring them together around the dialogue table, as part of a series of meetings held in Morocco, with a view to advancing the process of a political solution, in accordance with the Skhirat agreement, concluded in 2015, to achieve the expected political settlement, underlines the Press Release.
On the other hand, the OIC Summit also welcomed the “Rabat Declaration”, adopted at the end of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on Middle-Income Countries in February 2024, which called for consolidating the participation of these countries in global governance and to promote the Middle-Income Countries Friendship Group, to become an official government platform for dialogue, awareness and coordination on development issues.
The Summit also welcomed the efforts made by the Kingdom in the fight against terrorism, welcoming, in this regard, the choice of Morocco by the United Nations as a partner to host the Office of the United Nations Program for fight against terrorism and training in Africa.
At the same time, the Banjul Summit praised the Moroccan experience in the fight against terrorism, through the presidency of the Think Tank of the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State (Daesh/ISIS) in Africa , and the organization by the Kingdom of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Global Coalition against Daesh in Marrakech, on May 11, 2022.
In the field of migration, the OIC Summit praised the pioneering role of His Majesty King Mohammed VI as Champion of migration issues at the African level, and the pursuit by the Kingdom of Morocco to fully play its role in as a leading country in implementing the Global Compact on Migration.
On another note, the Summit welcomed the election of Morocco at the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) for the year 2024, in recognition by the international community of its role in in the defense of central human rights issues.
He also welcomed the Marrakech Declaration, resulting from the first International Seminar on Implementation, Reporting and Monitoring in the Field of Human Rights, held in Marrakech in December 2022.
Likewise, the OIC Summit welcomed the technical support provided by the Kingdom of Morocco to increase agricultural capacity and strengthen food security in many regions of the world, devoting more than a quarter of its agricultural capacity production of fertilizer to a number of countries with fragile agricultural systems, and also by allocating 4 million tonnes of fertilizer to improve food security in Africa during the year 2023, which is likely to increase productivity by 44 million farmers in 35 countries.
The Banjul Summit also welcomed the obtaining by the Kingdom of Morocco of “Sectoral Dialogue Partner Status” with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is intended to be the crowning achievement of the process of the dynamics of partnerships between Morocco and Southeast Asian countries.
He also welcomed the pioneering role of the Mohammed VI Center for the Dialogue of Civilizations in the Chilean city of Coquimbo, as a gateway for civilizational communication between the Islamic world and the Atlantic countries of Africa and Latin America in particular. .
The 15th OIC Summit Conference welcomed, in this regard, the resolution proposed by Morocco and adopted, unanimously, by the United Nations General Assembly, on July 25, 2023, regarding the “Fight against hate speech: promotion of interreligious, intercultural dialogue and tolerance”.
On the other hand, the Final Communiqué praised Morocco’s inscription of the Malhoun heritage on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, during the 18th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO , held in Botswana in November 2023, and which aims to be an international recognition of the efforts of the Kingdom of Morocco to protect and promote tangible and intangible cultural heritage, bringing to 14 the total number of cultural properties inscribed on the List of Intangible World Heritage of Unesco.
