The two-day summit, held on August 29-30, also reaffirmed the UN Security Council’s primacy and role in maintaining international peace and security.

The Summit’s conclusions endorse Morocco’s longstanding priorities, including conflict prevention, strengthening existing mechanisms, addressing the root causes of conflicts through the peace-security-development nexus, and preserving a coherent African institutional framework.

Prevention is seen as a strategic investment that is less costly, both in human and financial terms, than managing crises once they have taken hold.

Regarding the peace-security-development nexus as a key pillar of prevention, the Summit recognized the multidimensional nature of conflict prevention.

This approach directly echoes Morocco’s vision of the peace-security-development nexus, particularly through the Tangier Process.

Morocco stressed that conflict prevention could not be exclusively security- or institution-based, but must also address the root causes of conflicts, whether economic, social, institutional, climate-related or human.

From this perspective, the Kingdom highlighted the need to invest more in the factors that generate lasting peace, including human development, employment and opportunities for young people, food and water security, infrastructure, connectivity and community resilience.

This approach means viewing these policies not merely as development instruments, but as genuine levers for prevention, stability and peacebuilding.

It reflects a gradual shift from managing conflicts after they erupt toward building, at an early stage, the conditions for peace and preventing crises from emerging.

The summit stressed the need to make coherence between the African Union and the United Nations a guiding principle in implementing African mechanisms for conflict prevention and resolution.

For the Kingdom, respect for the UNSC’s primary responsibility provides a guarantee of institutional coherence, helping to avoid overlapping mandates, the proliferation of parallel processes and initiatives that could complicate efforts to resolve disputes.

The objective, therefore, is not to set African action against international action, but to organize their complementarity while respecting established mandates and responsibilities.

This approach would strengthen Africa’s peace and security architecture without altering its institutional balance or creating new powers through an overly broad interpretation of existing mandates. Morocco also stressed the need to ensure a realistic and financially sustainable implementation of the Luanda Action Plan and its matrix.

In this regard, the Kingdom called for a clear prioritization of objectives, the avoidance of institutional duplication and a precise assessment of the financial implications of any new activities.

However, Financing concerns more than peace operations or crisis management, which requires investment in mediation, early warning, preventive diplomacy and post-conflict reconstruction, as well as, in line with the nexus approach, in the economic, social and human factors capable of sustainably reducing the risk of conflict.

This is precisely where one of the main challenges following Luanda lies: moving from a culture of financing crises to a genuine culture of financing prevention.

Morocco also emphasized the need for Africa to gradually strengthen its capacity to finance its own priorities in peace, security and development, while continuing to rely on strong, predictable and balanced international partnerships.

This vision is part of the African approach championed by HM King Mohammed VI, which places human development, South-South cooperation, solidarity and shared prosperity at the heart of Morocco’s contribution to stability across the continent.

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