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King Mohammed VI at the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly: The Maghreb Union is no longer an optional choice or a luxury
“Morocco always stands beside the Tunisian people for better or for worse,” King Mohammed VI of Morocco said on Saturday.
The Moroccan sovereign, who was speaking from the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA), reiterated his commitment to build fruitful co-operation relations between Tunisia and Morocco and make of them a model in Maghreb relations.
“We are keen to strengthen the ties binding our two peoples and raise them to the level of an exemplary strategic partnership,” he stressed at an official ceremony held at the NCA.
“This joint commitment should be translated into promising structuring projects, particularly in priority areas,” he added.
At the regional level, the King Mohammed VI argued that “A wise and optimum use of the privileged relations between Tunisia and Morocco will certainly help concretize Maghreb complementarity,”.
“The Maghreb Union is no longer an optional choice or a luxury. It has rather become an urgent popular demand and a regional inevitable and strategic requirement,” he underlined, recalling that experience has shown that unilateral approaches are ineffective to deal with the security dangers facing the region, especially with regard to challenges coming from the Sahel and Saharan region in terms of security and development.
The king criticizing the closure of Borders, highlighted that “ the ongoing closure of borders, which is not only at odds with the Union’s founding charter, but is also inconsistent with the normal course of history and the requirements of geographic complementarities and cohesion. In fact, such a policy is against the very interests of the region’s peoples, who yearn for unity and integration”.
The Moroccan King said that the realization of a comprehensive development for peoples of the region requires beforehand the creation of a climate conducive to the establishment of major inclusive projects, and especially the completion of the finalization of the Maghreb free trade area.
Another prerequisite is the construction of connection networks for the different infrastructure to facilitate the free movement of persons, services, goods and capital between the Maghreb countries and open wide opportunities and prospects for the creation of wealth and employment.
