(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, JUNE 8 - ''We have a feeling that the
Union for the Mediterranean will make a new start in 2012,''
said the organisation's new secretary general Fatallah
Sijilmassi. Sijilmassi made his remark after a meeting of the
Union's presidency bureau at the European Parliament in
Brussels.
''The current concentration of political and economic efforts,''
the secretary general explained, ''should be focused on regional
cooperation and projects, through the secretariat." Therefore
the whole organisation in Barcelona ''should take the projects
that are labelled 'UFM' and make sure they are financed and
carried out. We are working towards this goal and the projects
in which most progress has been made are the Maghreb motorway
between Casablanca and Tunis, the desalination facility in Gaza
and the Logismeta logistic platform, aimed at making the
transport of goods in the Mediterranean as competitive as
possible for business,'' Sijilmassi added. (ANSAmed)
