Peru praised, on Thursday, the Atlantic Initiative, launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, aimed at transforming this continental maritime space into a zone of peace, stability and development.
This position was expressed on the occasion of the holding in Lima of the seventh edition of the Political Consultations Mechanism between the Kingdom of Morocco and Peru, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries on June 27, 1964.
At the meeting, the two countries welcomed the convergence of their views on a host of regional and international issues, illustrating their shared commitment to peace, stability and sustainable development.
In addition to the great interest shown in development proposals and structuring projects, the Morocco-Peruvian Political Consultations meeting also served as a framework for drawing up a draft Multisectoral Roadmap, a key document marking the two countries’ commitment to initiatives to be undertaken in sectora
l cooperation during 2024.
Discussions between the two sides covered all the priority topics on the bilateral agenda, with a particular focus on stepping up trade and economic exchanges, technical cooperation in education and culture, and the fields of water resources, agronomic research, science, technology and tourism.
The Moroccan delegation at this meeting was chaired by Fouad Yazourh, Director General of Bilateral Relations and Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, accompanied by HM the King’s Ambassador to Peru, Amin Chaoudri, and the Director of American Affairs, Nezha Attahar.
On the Peruvian side, the meeting was co-chaired by Vice-Minister of Foreign Relations, Ignacio Higueras Hare, in the presence of several directors from his department.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse
GENEVA: The United Nations human rights chief said today that Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state.
Volker Turk said that the growth of Israeli colonies amounted to the transfer by Israel of its own population, which he reiterated was a war crime. The US Biden administration said last month the colonies were ‘inconsistent’ with international law after Israel announced new housing plans for colonists in the West Bank.
‘Settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian State,’ Turk said in a statement accompanying the report which will be presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva in late March.
The 16-page report, based on the UN’s own monitoring as well as other sources, documented 24,300 new Israeli housing units in the West Bank during a one-year period through to the end of
October 2023, which it said was the highest on record since monitoring began in 2017.
It also said there had been a dramatic increase in the intensity, severity and regularity of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by both extremist colonists and the Israeli occupation forces during the same period.
Turk’s report noted that the policies of Israel’s government, which is the most right-wing in the country’s history and includes religious nationalists with close ties to settlers, appeared aligned to an ‘unprecedented extent’ with the goals of the Israeli settler movement.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA