King Mohammed VI has expressed Morocco’s full support to the “Action for Peacekeeping” Initiative launched by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. “It is not by chance that today’s meeting coincides with the 70th anniversary of Peacekeeping Operations. As soon as it was launched (in March this year), “the Kingdom of Morocco backed the Action for Peacekeeping initiative, a key component of this reform. We need to act quickly and diligently to make sure peacekeeping operations achieve their objectives in full”, underlined the Moroccan Sovereign. The mandates given to Peacekeeping Operations “must be realistic, pragmatic, achievable and adequately funded”, added King Mohammed VI, affirming that crisis resolution must remain the ultimate goal of peacekeeping operations, which requires greater mobilization to promote political solutions and prevention and mediation initiatives.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 26, 2018 13:18 UTC