In the Joint Declaration, the Forum welcomed the hosting by the Kingdom of Morocco of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, valuing the kingdom’s role and efforts during the chairmanship of the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (2021-2023).
The Arab and Russian Foreign ministers also called for strengthening Russian-Arab counter-terrorism cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism and extremism on international and regional levels, rejecting all crimes of terrorist groups that affect security and stability of Arab countries, “including any groups that rebel against the existing authority of states and take up arms outside the legitimate institutional frameworks recognized within state”.
The Forum, chaired by Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, rejected the association of terrorism with any race, religion, nationality or civilization, calling on States to refrain from providing any form of support, direct or indirect, to entities or persons involved in terrorist acts, including foreign terrorist fighters.
The participants also condemned terrorism in all forms and manifestations, reaffirming that all terrorist acts “are criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their motivations, whenever and by whomsoever and against whom committed”.
