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(FR) AD TALK & PLENARY IV: THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE MIGRATION CRISIS

December 14, 2018
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AD TALK: MEDITERRANEAN AND NORTH AFRICAN DIMENSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC DYNAMICS Moderator Jeff Koinange, Senior Anchor, Citizen Television Speakers Amre Moussa, Former Secretary-General of the Arab League, Egypt Miguel Angel Moratinos, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain PLENARY IV: THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE MIGRATION CRISIS Moderator Jeff Koinange, Senior Anchor, Citizen Television Speakers Lloyd Axworthy, Chair, World Refugee Council Mounia Boucetta, Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Kingdom of Morocco Abdoullah Coulibaly, President, Bamako Forum Foundation Birame Diop, Special Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic, Senegal Armed Forces Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, President of The Women for Africa Foundation, President of the Council of State, Spain

Speakers
Amre Moussa
Former Secretary-General of the Arab League, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
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Miguel Angel Moratinos
High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Mr. Moratinos has committed his professional and political career to international relationships and development cooperation, notably as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain from 2004 to 2010. Between 1987 and 2004, he served as Deputy Director General for Northern Africa (1987-1991), Director of the Institute of Cooperation with the Arab World (1991-1993), Director General of Foreign Policy for Africa and the Middle East (1993-1996), Ambassador of Spain to Israel (1996), and the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process (1996-2003). As the top diplomat in Spain, he represented his country presiding over the UN Security Council in 2004, holding the chairmanships-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the C ...
Mounia Boucetta
Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du Ministre des Affaires Etrangères et de la Coopération Internationaale
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