Draft strategies to combat terrorism and narcotics in the Arab world were adopted by the Arab interior ministers at the 36th meeting of their Council convened this weekend in Tunis. Morocco took part in the Tunis meeting with a delegation led by Interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit. At the end of their two-day meeting, the Arab interior ministers approved a draft plan to improve Arab civil Protection as well as the recommendations of the conferences held by the General Secretariat in 2018. According to the Secretary General of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers Mohamed Ben Ali Koman, most serious security challenge facing the Arab countries is the return of terrorist elements from hotbeds of tension following the defeat of terror organizations such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. He called for an updated Arab database on “terrorist fighters” and for supplying the base with all available information to confront the terrorist scourge threatening the Arab world peace, stability and security.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 04, 2019 17:15 UTC