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Rabat: security in the Mediterranean basin

By on March 25, 2010
The issue of security in the Mediterranean is huge given the scale of threats to the region. Also, the regional partnership is needed there.
Officials and experts gathered, in Rabat/Morocco, around a common reflection to examine ways to achieve the desired peace in the Mediterranean region which is marked by tensions of various kinds. “New types of problems especially after September 11, 2001, came to add their weight to the imbalanced development”.

The region remains dependent on what happens in the Middle East and Africa, and not only to the Sahel-Sahara band but also to the Atlantic zone. Within this broad regional area, organised criminal groups have their own law. The Sahel is the breeding ground for all kinds of traffic: illegal immigration, arms trafficking, drugs, piracy, and terrorism embodied by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
This area is very dangerous and too large to be managed by one authority. Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb threatens the whole Maghreb, and nothing can be done with individual initiatives. Isolated initiatives will never have the expected impact to contain the instability that is increasingly felt; and we will continue to lose separately, and fail to win collectively.

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