House of Representatives Takes Part in 76th Session of the APU Executive Committee and 43rd Conference of the Union
The House of Representatives took part in the 76th Session of the African Parliamentary Union Executive Committee and the 43rd Conference of the Union, which took place in Djibouti on October 11-15, 2021.
Mr. Touimi Benjelloun represented the House at the event. In his speech before the participating parliamentary delegations, he expressed the commitment of the House of Representatives to take part in the APU activities regularly. On the same occasion, he highlighted the numerous achievements made by the Kingdom of Morocco in fighting Covid-19 and its measures to curb the pandemic's propagation.
In the same context, Mr. Touimi Benjelloun said that Morocco has engaged in an important project to produce anti-Covid19 vaccines, which will provide a production capacity of five million doses per month by the end of the year, with a prospect of increasing production in the coming years. He also noted that this project would primarily benefit African countries given South-South cooperation as a strategic orientation in which the Kingdom of Morocco has engaged with regard to its relation with its African family.
On the sidelines of the Conference, Mr. Mohammed Touimi Benjelloun held a meeting with the Speaker of the National Assembly of Djibouti, Ali Mohamed Houmed. The two sides discussed the means to strengthen the bilateral parliamentary relations and the need to activate the friendship group mechanism to exchange visits between the two countries. They also praised the political ties linking the Kingdom of Morocco to the Republic of Djibouti, stressing the necessity of promoting economic relations to the same level as the excellent political ties, and of exchanging visits between the different government officials of the two countries.
In the remaining meetings, the APU bodies will discuss the repercussions of Covid-19 on African peoples and the ways to monitor the various challenges that must be met to ensure recovery from the pandemic’s effects and to launch the economic takeoff to serve the interests of African peoples.
The House of Representatives joined the African Parliamentary Union in November 1978 and has since been taking an active and regular part in its conferences. It has also been participating in the meetings of the APU executive bodies and the various specialized sectoral and regional meetings it organizes, with a view to developing the fraternal cooperation ties the Kingdom of Morocco had established with African countries and defending our country's territorial integrity.