Barcelona, Spain .- The foreign ministers of the EU and the countries of the southern Mediterranean bet on Monday to improve coordination the fight against jihadist terrorism, which have agreed to recognize as the main threat currently have.
The Spanish city of Barcelona hosted the first meeting held within seven years chiefs Diplomatic missions of European countries and their neighbors on the other side of the Mediterranean, which have exchanged views on how to increase their cooperation against jihadism, illegal immigration or to facilitate trade, Efe.
The summit was opened by the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, who claimed in his speech increased cooperation between EU countries and the southern shore Mediterranean, because in his opinion, only by acting together can cope with it considers its main threat.
“Let no fall in the gross deception to speak of jihadism as a representative of Islam. Let no one be swayed by the fallacy that speaks of a struggle of Islam against the West. The terrorists will pose a challenge for everyone and the Islamic world is as much a victim as the other terrorist scourge “added
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In strengthen this cooperation pledged at a conference joint press Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Federica Mogherini, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, his counterpart in Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, and the European Commissioner Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn.
The five held a joint press conference on the sidelines of the summit and expressed the commitment to improve cooperation in the fight against jihadist terrorism.
Mogherini explained that participating countries were placed to hold a meeting in the same format every year and was convinced that there will be another similar meeting in 2016, while noting that the intention is that the seat is rotating: “Probably will be somewhere else, “he said after thanking the host of Barcelona.
As regards the fight against jihadist terrorism, also called for increased cooperation and considered it essential that, addition to security policies, to work together on the north and south of the Mediterranean in other fields, such as giving work opportunities to young people or promote dialogue between cultures and religions as a “tool of prevention.”
In this line, García-Margallo said there would be a meeting in Barcelona with religious representatives of the Alliance of Civilizations in June, the Anna Lind Foundation, the foundation for King Abdullah interreligious dialogue and al-Azhar University in Cairo.
García-Margallo also stressed the need to promote an International Criminal Court against terrorist crimes, proposal was confident that Spain you can carry in October to the Security Council of the UN, during its presidency in this organization.
Also the Jordanian Nasser Judeh, cochair of the Union for the Mediterranean , agreed on the need to provide opportunities and be “close” to the problems of young people to avoid being “easy prey” of jihadist terrorism, an issue that has called “global war”.
In this context, Judeh said because “there is no country in this region and the world that is oblivious to the threat of terrorism” and requires a “long-term ideological struggle.”
Moreover, Mogherini announced the holding “in the coming months” for a forthcoming meeting of EU foreign ministers and Interior to address the problem of illegal immigration and predicted that the problem of immigration will be the focus of the next EU-Mediterranean summit.
The Italian diplomatic alluded to the incident in which the Italian Coast Guard today recovered the bodies of nine immigrants and give help to other 144 people traveling towards Italy aboard a ship that sank 80 miles off the coast of Libya.
“This indicates ahead an emergency to save lives,” said Mogherini.
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