Morocco to join Global Partnership on AI

Some new countries, including Morocco, expressed on Sunday their interest to join the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) during a Ministerial Meeting of member countries, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs announced.

On the sidelines of the AI Action Summit, which kicked off on Monday in Paris, France, Serbia and Slovakia brought together several dozen ministers from GPAI signatory states at the headquarters of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

“On this occasion, 7 countries – Cambodia, Malta, Romania, Croatia, Rwanda, Morocco, Kazakhstan – expressed their interest in joining the GPAI, following the recent approval by GPAI members of their membership application process,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a press release, adding that this announcement paves the way for “broader and more diversified participation in the GPAI in the context of global AI governance.”

Following the Belgrade summit in December 2024 and ahead of the next GPAI Ministerial Council in Bratislava in December 2025, the Slovak and Serbian authorities, who hold the co-presidency of the GPAI, “expressed their wish, alongside the French authorities, to bring together, in an open and inclusive format, the member countries of the Global Partnership for AI as well as the countries that have expressed their interest in the initiative,” the same source added.

Quoted in the press release, the head of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, welcomed the fact that six years after President Emmanuel Macron announced the launch of a global partnership on AI in 2019, “some 50 states are acting alongside us and new ones have expressed their interest today in Paris, on the occasion of the Global Summit for Action on AI.”

The GPAI ministers will meet again at the GPAI Council meeting to be held in Bratislava in December 2025, which “will be an opportunity to deepen the momentum already well underway,” the same source added.