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The AU Executive Council’s support for these candidacies demonstrates Morocco’s strong standing within the pan-African organization and the applicability of the Kingdom’s strategy to increase its influence in international organizations, which is guided by His Majesty King Mohammed VI’s High Vision.

Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates, led the Moroccan delegation to the AU Executive Council.

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Addis Ababa – The Heads of State and Government of the 54 member countries of the African Union (AU) began, Saturday in Addis Ababa, the proceedings of the 36th ordinary session of the pan-African organization’s summit with the participation of Morocco.

At this 36th AU Summit of Heads of State and Government, the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, represents HM King Mohammed VI.

تشرفت بتمثيل صاحب الجلالة الملك محمد السادس، نصره الله، في أشغال الدورة الــ 36 لقمة الاتحاد الإفريقي، التي انطلقت اليوم السبت بأديس أبابا، تحت شعار "تسريع مسلسل تنفيذ منطقة التبادل الحر القارية الافريقية". pic.twitter.com/h0pim5K1aG

— رئيس الحكومة المغربية (@ChefGov_ma) February 18, 2023

Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita, Ambassador Permanent Representative of the Kingdom to the African Union and the UNECA Mohamed Arrouchi, and Ambassador Director General of the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI) Mohamed Methqal make up the Moroccan delegation attending this summit.

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This 36th Summit, with the theme “The Year of AfCFTA: Acceleration of the African Continental Free Trade Area Implementation,” will cover a variety of topics, including the institutional reform of the AU, the state of peace and security on the continent, the awarding of the Union a seat in the G20, the global food crisis, the AU response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the assessment of the first ten-year plan for the implementation of Agenda 2063, and issues specific to the

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Morocco, under the guidance of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, will continue to work for the strengthening of a policy of active cooperation and solidarity with African countries, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, during the 42nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union held in Addis Ababa.

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Speaking during the examination of the Report of the Ministerial Committee for the Follow-up of the Implementation of Agenda 2063, Mr Bourita stressed that Agenda 2063, as an action plan of the African Union, constitutes an appropriate roadmap for the success of economic integration and sustainable development aspired by our continent.

In this context, “the lessons learned from the first decade of Agenda 2063, which was a decade of convergence, can only serve to fuel the ambition that drives us for the successful implementation of the second ten-year plan, which is intended to be a decade of acceleration,” the Minister noted.

However, Mr Bourita noted, the implementation of the aspirations and objectives of the Agenda depends first of all on the commitment of each Member State to invest in its implementation at national level.

In this perspective, the Kingdom of Morocco is committed, since its return to its African institutional family in 2017, to the implementation of the aspirations of Agenda 2063, the minister said.

Mr. Bourita stressed that sustainable development, in its three economic, social and environmental dimensions, has been, since the beginning of the century, the central objective of the reforms undertaken by the Kingdom of Morocco and supported by the dedication of more than a third of its national wealth to investment in the productive sectors, economic infrastructure, human development, new technologies, renewable energy and urban development.

In addition, and in order to adapt these efforts to the economic changes and external crises of recent years, Morocco has initiated a range of actions, namely, the establishment of a New Development Model whose vision and objectives set for 2035 converge perfectly with the aspirations and objectives of the Agenda 2063, the launch of a project to generalise social protection by 2025 and the development of an economic recovery plan which constitutes a framework for strengthening partnerships between the State and the private sector, encouraging the involvement of the latter in the financing and implementation of Agenda 2063.

The Minister reiterated the Kingdom’s determination to work with African countries to achieve the objectives “of our continental agenda, aiming at a dynamic, strong, democratic and sustainable Africa.

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The African Union’s (AU) Assembly’s 35th Ordinary Session began on Saturday at the Pan-African organization’s headquarters in Addis Ababa.

HM King Mohammed VI is represented at this 35th session by Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Abroad. The theme is “Building Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent: Strengthen Agriculture, Accelerate Human Capital, Social, and Economic Development.”

The 35th Assembly of the African Union will consider the Report of the Executive Council’s 40th Ordinary Session, which took place on February 2-3, 2022, as well as other reports, during its three sessions: Peace, Security, and Governance, African Citizen Well-Being: Health, Nutrition, and Food Security, and Regional Integration through a Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Economic Recovery.

Other topics on the Assembly’s agenda include the Annual Report of the Union and its Organs, including the Heads of State’s Specific Thematic Issues, Champions, and draft Legal Instruments.

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Morocco was elected today, March 17th, in Addis Ababa, as the rapporteur of the new bureau of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Conference, which is chaired by Equatorial Guinea.

The composition of the new bureau was announced by the Kingdom’s ambassador to Ethiopia, and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mohamed Arrouchi, who presided over the opening session of the Bureau of the Experts Preparatory Committee for the 53rd session of the UNECA and the 2021 session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

The new bureau is made up of Equatorial Guinea (Chair), Madagascar (First Vice President), Zambia (Second Vice President), Sierra Leone (Third Vice President) and Morocco (Rapporteur).

It should be noted that the Kingdom of Morocco has headed the office of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development since its election during the March 2018 Conference held in Marrakech.

The work of the 53rd session of the UNECA and the 2021 session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development was launched earlier today, Wednesday, under the slogan “Africa’s sustainable industrialization and diversification in the digital era in the context of Covid-19”, and will continue by video conference until next Tuesday.

This year’s theme includes “African countries’ need to achieve rapid economic growth thanks to industrialization and diversification while respecting the environment while benefiting from digitalization”.

The intensification of digitization in Africa will stimulate transformation, which will help Africa to achieve sustainable industrialization and diversification in light of a global digital economy that will soon exceed 11.5 billion dollars, ”according to the UNECA.

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