Maghreban sport ministers wind up 7th session
Maghreb, Culture, 12/28/2001

The council of Maghreban ministers of youth and sports on Thursday wound up its two-day 7th session in Rabat by the adoption of a final statement calling for the adoption of a clear-cut strategy to enhance inter-Maghreban cooperation in matters of youth and sports.

The Maghreban officials stressed the need to appoint the members of the council's executive board and to complete the formation of the Maghreban sports council before next February.

They recommended the holding of sporting events at the level of the Maghreb and the encouragement of varsities.

The session called for appointing the members of the administrative board of the Maghreban youth tourism agency and to speed up the setting up of the Maghreban union of vocational training institutes dealing with childhood, youth and sports and to set up a data base of these institutes.

The session agreed on next year's program of activity and decided to hold a congress on sports medicine and doping in Tunisia in October 2002, a meeting on physical training sciences and methods in Algeria in November and a conference on violence and security in stadiums in Morocco in December.

The participants equally agreed to hold a meeting in Algeria in November 2002 of the secretary generals of Maghreban sports unions to finalize the draft statute of the Maghreban sports union.

Libya will host a meeting of directors of vocational training institutes dealing with childhood, youth and sports in March and a meeting on training and research in matters of youth and childhood in June.

The coming session of the council of Maghreban ministers of youth and sports will be held in Mauritania in June 2002.

Abdelahmid Berchich (Algeria), Aissa Tbika (Libya), Baba Ould Sidi (Mauritania), Ahmed Moussaoui (Morocco), and Abderrahim Zouaoui (Tunisia) took part in the council's 7th session.

They also surveyed at a meeting with Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, various aspects of cooperation between Maghreban countries and ways of reactivating the construction process of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA).

UMA was set up in Marrakesh in 1989 by the five Maghreban countries, but its structures have been paralyzed for years due to strained relations between some member countries and especially between Morocco and Algeria over Algiers' direct involvement in the Sahara issue.

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