Morocco Participates in CEN-SAD Defense Ministers' Meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh

Vendredi 25 Mars 2016

Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) - Defense ministers and officials of 27 African and Arab countries, including Morocco, started on Thursday a two-day meeting in in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh to explore military and counter-terrorism cooperation.
"The situation in the Sahel-Saharan states is very worrying," Nigerien CEN-SAD Secretary General Ibrahim Sani Abani said in his opening speech.

The CEN-SAD Secretary General pointed out that "this phenomenon knows no boundaries and no state can protect only itself, it requires a coordinated and concerted response".

The four-day meeting is attended by representatives from five European countries and a number of regional and international organizations.

The meeting is expected to tackle means of bolstering intelligence cooperation and information exchange among CEN-SAD member-states.

Morocco is represented by a delegation led by Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of the Administration of National Defense, Abdeltif Loudyi.



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