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The Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, called for the imperative of establishing a legal framework for social networks, during the holding of the 40th session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice, Thursday in Cairo.
In a statement to MAP, the minister stressed the importance of establishing a regulatory framework for social networks and streaming platforms, used to undermine individual freedoms, calling for an in-depth debate to be launched on this issue.
Morocco, he said, is preparing to host an international conference on artificial intelligence and social networks next April with the participation of several international personalities.
Furthermore, Mr. Ouahbi indicated that the meeting of Arab Ministers of Justice resulted in important results and decisions, addressing several issues relating, in particular, to terrorism, narcotics, social networks, children’s rights and cooperation in the transfer of detainees between countries.
In this sense, Morocco presented a set of proposals on the occasion of this session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice, he added, highlighting the re-election of Morocco as a member of the executive bureau of the Council.
In addition to Mr. Ouahbi, the Moroccan delegation to this council session also included the Moroccan ambassador to Cairo, permanent delegate to the League of Arab States, Mohamed Ait Ouali, and the director of Criminal Affairs, Pardons and Detection of crime at the Ministry of Justice, Hicham Mellati.
The agenda of this meeting focused on the means of implementing the Arab conventions to combat terrorism and the mechanism for its operationalization, to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism, as well as to combat against computer crimes, in addition to strengthening Arab and international cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The participants also examined the progress of the implementation of decisions relating to the Arab convention against corruption, the draft Arab convention relating to the conditions of refugees in Arab countries, the draft Arab convention on data protection of a personal nature, the draft Arab reference law on the prevention of hate speech, that on the protection and assistance of displaced people in Arab countries, as well as the draft Arab reference law on the protection of children against recruitment in armed conflicts.
They also discussed the amendment of the Arab model law to combat drugs and psychotropic substances.
