CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has arrived in Amman to attend a two-day conference of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) that kicked off Tuesday on the security challenges that face the Mediterranean region, Egypt’s state-owned news Agency MENA reported.
“We must work to contain the spread of radical groups in Syria as part of the solution for the Syrian crisis,” Shoukry addressed the participants as quoted in a post re-tweeted by the official account of OSCE Tuesday.
The first session of the conference will focus on “a political exchange on common security in the Mediterranean region,” according to a statement from the OSCE Oct. 8.
Other sessions will tackle violent extremism and terrorism, the interfaith and intercultural dialogues, unregistered migration, refugee protection, and human trafficking in the region, the statement added.
The meeting will be attended by representatives from 57 OSCE member states, besides six Mediterranean partner countries, and others from international organizations.
The meetings come in light of the Helsinki Final Act that stipulates “security in Europe is closely linked with security in the Mediterranean area as a whole,” the statement noted.
Due to the ongoing security and political turmoil in regional countries, hundreds of asylum seekers of Middle East and North Africa, particularly from Egypt Syria, Iraq and Libya, illegally migrate via the Mediterranean seat to Italy or Greece as gates for other European countries.