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The 3rd Arab Economic and Cooperation Forum with the countries of Central Asia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, held on Tuesday in Doha at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance and the Economy, highlighted the importance of the role of the Presidency of the Al-Quds Committee.
In the Doha Declaration issued at the end of the Forum, the Arab Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance and Economy and their counterparts from Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan also praised the efforts of the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency, which reports to the Al-Quds Committee, chaired by HM King Mohammed VI.
They also stressed the importance of Libyan parties respecting the Skhirat Agreement, signed in Morocco in 2015. On another note, Forum participants welcomed the Marrakech Declaration on the Security Initiative against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, adopted in January 2024, which stresses the need to step up regional efforts to combat weapons of mass destruction by promoting the exchange of expertise, experience and best practices between member countries of this initiative.
The ministers also welcomed the positive outcome of the Kingdom of Morocco’s presidency of the United Nations Environment Assembly for the period 2022-2024, recalling that the Rabat Declaration adopted at the end of the High-Level Conference on Middle-Income Countries, held in Rabat on February 5 and 6, 2024, had called for a paradigm shift in international development cooperation in favor of middle-income countries, and for the strengthening of these countries’ participation in global governance.
They also welcomed Morocco’s election to the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the year 2024, as the first Arab country to accede to this prestigious post. The Doha Declaration also welcomed the Kingdom’s appointment as facilitator of the UN process for the World Social Summit to be held in 2025.
Morocco was represented at the Forum by a delegation led by the Kingdom’s Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League, Mohamed Ait Ouali.
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