According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Kingdom of Morocco will be chairing the Peace and Security Council of the African Union for one month, starting from October 1st, 2022. Morocco was elected at the 35th Summit of the African Union as a member of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union for the period 2022-2025 in February 2022.
The Moroccan chairmanship of the PSC-AU is in line with the continuity of the Kingdom’s commitments to a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Africa and represents a recognition of the efforts of the Kingdom’s diplomacy at the level of the African continent, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, in favor of peace, security and stability in Africa.
Following an innovative approach aimed at outlining a new strategy for the pan-African organization, in order to meet the challenges related to peace and security, the Kingdom of Morocco aims to generate collective responses to several global and regional issues. Thus, terrorism, child soldiers, climate change, food security, and the situation in the Sahel and in the Central African Republic, will be topics on the agenda of several high-level meetings with ministers, ambassadors, and experts.
Morocco’s chairmanship will also involve several statutory meetings, including those involving the UN Security Council, as well as the examination of reports, including those on the state of peace in Africa and the implementation of the AU’s main roadmap for silencing arms in Africa.
As part of its commitment and determination to serve the continental peace and security agenda in a holistic and multidimensional manner, Morocco will host, during its chairmanship of the PSC-AU, a political conference in Tangier, from 25 to 27 October 2022, on “Promoting the Peace, Security and Development Nexus, a Regional Integration Perspective”, in partnership with the African Union’s Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security.
The Moroccan chairmanship will also be marked by the organization of two ministerial meetings on the following themes: “Development and de-radicalization as levers to fight terrorism and violent extremism” and “Climate change, peace, and security: building resilience and adaptation for food security in African island states”.
Since its return to the African Union in January 2017, the Kingdom of Morocco had served on the PSC-AU, as a member for a two-year term from 2018 to 2020. During this first term, marked by its chairmanship of this decision-making body in September 2019, Morocco has contributed constructively to improving the working methods of the AU-PSC and promoting best practices in the work of the AU.