Several challenges are to be addressed, especially those related to climate, which affect the Mediterranean and Gulf region, with a view to a more effective economic integration, in addition to preserving the rights of future generations as to the environment and natural resources, because of their impact on the economy and their security and stability, said the minister at the opening of this two-day Forum.
It is also, he added, an important space for dialogue and discussion called, in a difficult situation, to propose alternatives and ideas for the establishment of new North-South relations.
The transformations that shake the international scene and the successive crises require innovation to find new ways to a new mutual cooperation capable of identifying the various repercussions of geopolitical conflicts, which have serious consequences for humanity and affect the security and stability of peoples, said Baitas.
He also said that in the context of the effects of the crises experienced by the world, Morocco lacks neither willingness nor expertise to help ensure food security or that of water and energy, highlighting the need to adopt a new logic free of selfish tendencies that threaten humanity and this, relying on skills and capabilities through partnerships that ensure our sovereignty, especially in the energy field.
The official also stressed the need to launch the debate and find solutions to ensure the protection of economies against shocks and crises, rather than adopting strategies based on opportunities and distinguished by cooperation between the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region and the Gulf.
The program of this two-day forum includes several thematic sessions dealing with the measures needed to cope with the economic effects of the crisis, with a debate on its multifaceted economic repercussions in the long term, focusing on the issues of food security, energy security and climate change, in addition to environmental issues, the fourth industrial revolution, financial and trade integration, regional disparities, sustainable tourism and maritime transport.
This forum seeks, through the active participation of parliamentarians from some thirty countries, to work for change in the face of major social, economic and climate challenges, to ensure a more effective economic integration and able to withstand external factors, as well as to create an expanded South-South trade network and to establish an integrated area of production and marketing of green energy, enjoying self-sufficiency.
