Moroccan delegate foreign minister meets Bosnian FM in Madrid

Madrid -Morocco's delegate minister for foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, and Bosnian foreign minister Igor Crnadak, who chairs the ministers committee of the European Council, held a meeting here on Tuesday on the sidelines of their participation in the UN Security Council's Committee against Terrorism (CTC) on the fight against the flow of foreign terrorist fighters.

Bouaida told MAP the Bosnian official expressed the Council of Europe's gratefulness for Morocco's efforts and commitment with the Council and contribution to the European neighborhood policy.

There was agreement to convene a meeting of the Council of Europe in Morocco to discuss the European neighborhood policy, said Bouaida who added that the meeting also discussed the Moroccan experience and expertise in South-South and North-South neighborhood relations as well relations between Morocco and Bosnia.

Over 400 experts, from the 15 Member-states met on Monday and Tuesday to explore ways to stop the flow of foreign fighters traveling to conflict areas to join terrorist groups, as in the case of the organization called "Islamic state" in Iraq and Syria during this conference co-organized by the United Nations and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.