Morocco attends follow-up ministerial meeting of Africa-Europe summit

Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, will take part Thursday in Brussels in the first ministerial meeting held part of the follow-up mechanisms of the Africa-Europe summit, held in Cairo in April 2000.

The meeting will look into the priority topics identified during the first meeting of senior officials from Europe and Africa, convened in Brussels in November 2000. These topics are related to African-European cooperation, integration, inter-regional trade, foreign debt, human rights, food security, environment protection, drought and desertification, a statement by the Moroccan foreign department said.

The topics will be submitted to the second Africa-Europe summit scheduled to be held in Portugal in 2002.