Morocco renews readiness to continue supporting Mano River Union’s members

Morocco has renewed its readiness to continue supporting Mano River Union’s member states and Secretariat at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels.

This was voiced by a Moroccan delegation that took part on in Monrovia Monday in the high-level meeting of ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Defense of the Mano River Union (MRU), made up of Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The MRU meeting discussed a series of political, economic, social, security, and institutional issues as well as means of revitalizing the Union, particularly with regard to the mobility of people and goods, and the implementation of the ECOWAS institutional framework.

The meeting also discussed the pilot project for a single currency and ways of strengthening the Mano River Union Secretariat.

In the final communiqué adopted by the meeting, the Ministers welcomed Morocco’s important role as strategic and historic bilateral partner to the Mano River Union’s member States and its firm and constant support to the Secretariat of the sub-regional organization.

Morocco has been an observer member of the Mano River Union since 2002, when the Kingdom facilitated mediation between Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to restore confidence and peace in the region and put an end to the conflicts that were hampering relations between these countries.