Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella will be leading a delegation to Nouakchott, Mauritania, where he will take part in the tenth 5+5 Foreign Ministers’ meeting today and tomorrow.
The 5+5 Dialogue is an informal sub-regional body that brings together Western Mediterranean countries – Malta, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and their North African neighbours Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
Malta hosted the 5+5 summit for heads of government held last October, following almost a decade’s lapse since the first ever summit held in Tunis in 2003.
The Mauritania meeting will be based on the issues highlighted in the Malta Declaration, with importance placed on sensitive regional issues like Syria as well as sectoral ones such as renewable energy, health, the economic situation in the Mediterranean and youth.