Morocco Participating at the Committee meeting of the Arab Peace Initiative

Cairo – The work of the Committee meeting of the Arab Peace Initiative devoted to developments that knows the Palestinian issue, began Wednesday in Cairo.

The meeting, held under Egyptian Presidency and in the presence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, addresses the review of the latest Israeli escalation in the occupied city of Al-Quds and the perpetuation of the settlement policy, besides the continuous attacks conducted by settlers against the Palestinian people, one of which killed a Palestinian baby north of the occupied West Bank.

Held on request of Palestine, the meeting will also dwell on the items on the agenda of the Monitoring Committee of the Peace Initiative, in addition to the measures to be taken by the Palestinian Presidency to end the Israeli occupation.

This meeting, the first since the one organized in the framework of the Arab Peace Initiative at the summit held last March in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, knows the participation of 14 countries, namely Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Algeria, Qatar, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirate.

Following the decision of the Arab summit, Egypt had chaired last July, a meeting of a select committee of the Arab Peace Initiative involving Palestine, Jordan and Morocco, in addition to the Secretary General of the Arab League and the objective of establishing an action uniting Arab efforts to ensure international support for the Palestinian cause and put an end to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Announced at the Arab summit in Beirut in 2002, the Arab Peace Initiative aims to establish a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, ensure the right of return for Palestinian refugees and the Israeli withdrawal from the Syrian Golan plateau, against the recognition of Israel by the Arab states and the establishment of peace.

Morocco is represented at the meeting by a delegation headed by Ms. Mbarka Bouaida, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and including in particular the Ambassador of the Kingdom in Cairo.