Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan abroad, Nasser Bourita, took part in a virtual ministerial meeting on the responsibility to protect, held on the sidelines of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking at this event, attended by the UN Secretary-General as well as FMs from other countries, Mr. Bourita stressed that Morocco, in accordance with the high guidelines of HM King Mohammed VI, has always stood out as a sponsor of tolerance and coexistence between nations, of messages of peace and respect of religions and cultural diversity within multilateral forums.
Morocco’s FM stressed the need to suppress the fragmentation between the different areas of multilateral cooperation in order to fully implement the roadmap set by the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular the Goal 16 on “peace, justice and strong institutions.”
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, “we have a particular responsibility to join efforts to implement the ambitious program adopted in 2005, on the basis of multilateral cooperation focused on results and based on evidence-based data,” Mr. Bourita pointed out.
If there is one lesson to be learned from the current pandemic, it is that states cannot shoulder this responsibility by acting separately, without any coordination, he added.
According to him, “the only way to overcome this challenge is multilateral cooperation on the basis of the principles of equality of States and respect for their national sovereignty as enshrined in international law.”
The principle of the responsibility to protect – known as R2P – was adopted by the United Nations at the 2005 World Summit, as a focal point for the protection of populations against mass atrocities.
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