While welcoming the launch of this American initiative, the Kingdom pointed out that the FTPRNT will provide an appropriate framework for innovative coordination to prevent and respond to the threats of nuclear and radiological terrorism, stressing the need to adapt the Moroccan approach in terms of the security threats facing the African continent, particularly in the Sahel region.

This Meeting also allowed Morocco to highlight the growing links between terrorist groups and separatist militias, the transnational organized crime, and the threat posed by proxies to acquire and divert nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological materials for criminal and terrorist purposes, as well as the use of new technologies to these aims.  The Kingdom calls for this framework for cooperation and collaboration to be operational in order to best meet the expectations of African countries, particularly in terms of capacity building.

Morocco considers that the objectives assigned to the «Global FTPRNT» initiative constitute a continuity in the important work accomplished within the framework of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), recalling that the Kingdom, being one of the founding countries of the GICNT in 2006, has also undertaken, since then, many actions as chairman of the Working Group on the implementation and assessment. 

It is worth mentioning that more than 70 countries took part in the meeting to launch the Global FTPRNT initiative, along with UN agencies such as the United Nations Office on Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).