Italy hailed "the serious and credible efforts" made by Morocco to reach a solution to the Sahara issue, in the Action Plan for the implementation of the Multidimensional Strategic Partnership between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Italian Republic, signed on Wednesday in Rome, we learned from the Moroccan Press Agency.
"Italy welcomes the serious and credible efforts made by Morocco", as reflected in Security Council resolution 2654 of October 27, 2022, says this Action Plan, signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, Mr. Nasser Bourita and his Italian counterpart, Mr. Antonio Tajani.
Referring to the Moroccan autonomy initiative, Italy also reaffirms ''its support for the UN Secretary General's efforts to pursue the political process aimed at achieving a political, just, realistic, pragmatic, lasting and mutually acceptable to the question of the Sahara, which is based on the compromise in accordance with resolution 2654'', the document points out.
Italy, in this same Action Plan, ''encourages all parties to pursue their commitment in a spirit of realism and compromise, in the context of arrangements consistent with the purposes and principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations' '.
The action plan, concluded in the continuity of the Joint Declaration signed, in Rabat, on November 1, 2019, constitutes a concrete implementation of the multidimensional Strategic Partnership between Morocco and Italy; a partnership oriented towards permanent dialogue and practical and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, is on a working visit to Italy this Wednesday, July 5, at the invitation of his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani. This is Mr. Bourita's first visit to Italy after the appointment, in October 2022, of Mr. Tajani as Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic. .
Source: Burkina Information Agency