5+5 Dialogue: 13th meeting of Foreign Ministers opens in Marseilles

The works of 13th ministerial of countries of 5+5 Dialogue opened in camera Friday in Villa Méditerranée (Marseilles), in the presence of Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra.

This meeting of the western Mediterranean’s countries will bring together FMs of Algeria, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia.

Foreign Affairs ministers of 5+5 Dialogue’s member countries will examine several regional and international issues like the situation in Libya, Syria and Iraq, security and fight against terrorism, development and cooperation, education, employment and youth, climate challenges in anticipation  of COP 22.

Foreign Affairs ministers of 5+5 Dialogue’s member countries will examine on this occasion, said Wednesday a communiqué of Foreign Affairs Ministry, “several regional and international issues like the situation in Libya, Syria and Iraq, security and fight against terrorism, development and cooperation, education, employment and youth, climate challenges in anticipation of COP 22,”, said Wednesday a communiqué of Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The ministry underlined in the communiqué that Algeria, which grants a “particular importance” to this dialogue, “will seize this opportunity to reiterate its long-standing position of support to the promotion of neighbourly ties and strengthening of cooperation and partnership relations between its member States.”

Algeria, which will take, at the end of this conference, the next co-chairmanship of 5+5 Dialogue for the Southern shore, for the next two years, will also call for the “strengthening of political dialogue and cooperation to take up the common challenges facing the region.”