HIBAPRESS
Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, received today, Wednesday, January 21st, at his office in Rabat, the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Gabon, and Malaysia accredited to Morocco.
The Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance began the reception program with a meeting with Alex PINFIELD, the UK ambassador accredited to Rabat, where he held extensive consultations that included various areas of advanced security cooperation between the two countries.
The two sides reviewed at the beginning of the meeting the levels and forms of distinguished cooperation between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United Kingdom in the security field, which includes border security, counter-terrorism, and combating transnational crime. They also discussed mechanisms to enhance this cooperation and expand its scope to be at the level of the distinguished relations between the two friendly countries.
The program of meetings of the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance also continued with a meeting with Branly Martial OUPOLO, the ambassador of the Republic of Gabon accredited to Rabat. This meeting addressed ways to enhance security cooperation relations between the two countries. They also reviewed the security situation in the regional environment, especially in the Sahel and Sahara region, as well as the risks, threats, and repercussions arising from many emerging crises in the regional space of the two countries.
This meeting provided an opportunity for the two parties to lay the foundations for a joint strategic vision aimed at building a space for South-South police cooperation, based on strengthening cooperation mechanisms in the areas of police training, combating illegal immigration networks, and monitoring and combating the movements of terrorist organizations in the Sahel and Sahara region.
The Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance concluded the bilateral meetings program by receiving Shahabudeen Bin Adam SHAH, the ambassador of Malaysia to Morocco, with whom he discussed mechanisms to enhance bilateral security cooperation between the two countries and consolidate the security partnership, including mutual technical assistance and operational cooperation.
These bilateral meetings demonstrate the extent of the involvement of the General Directorate of National Security and the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in activating security partnerships with friendly and sister countries, through a sustainable vision that aims to support the actual integration to confront the emerging criminal and terrorist threats, and to strengthen the channels for exchanging operational data and specialized training programs in police fields. These meetings also embody the Moroccan security services' firm commitment to responding to all cooperation requests that enhance security coordination between the Kingdom of Morocco and various sister and friendly countries.
