Migration – PAM party expresses deep sorrow for the outcome of Nador incident

Following the sad events which occurred in the transit buffer zone between Nador and occupied Melilia last Friday, June 24, 2022, when a number of illegal immigrants have attempted a collective violent incursion into the buffer zone between both cities, and which has resulted in several deaths and wounded, the PAM, while it is following that situation development has confirmed the following:

• Expressed its deep sorrow for the outcome of those events, sincere prayers for those who died and wishes of prompt recovery for the wounded persons.
• Praised highly responsibility and professionalism by which Moroccan public forces have intervened in full respect of regulations and of international legal conventions and in recalling all difficult humanitarian conditions faced by those immigrants, wished prompt recovery for the wounded persons.
• While the party understands public authorities’ obligation to take necessary measures to halt those incursions, in the context of their own responsibilities as regard to maintaining public security, it confirmed the necessity for all concerned parties in charge of immigration to assume their responsibilities, including international partners, especially in assuming the costs for receiving and managing integration of incoming immigrants to our country, in accordance with the vision established by His Majesty King Mohammed VI since 2013 and which is based on humanitarian and legal approach of turning immigration from constraint into an opportunity.
• Stressed the necessity for giving a new breath to immigration national strategy endorsed by our country, and mobilizing resources and potentials of all components to stand up with determination against human trafficking networks responsible for events in Nador, also in facilitating procedures of immigrants’ integration and allowing them basic economic and social rights to liberate them from those criminal networks temptations.
• Condemned all attempts to exploit those sad
  events to tarnish our country’s reputation and its leading role in the African continent in the field of immigration policy, which, thanks to royal supreme orientations, has permitted the legal settlement of more than 50 thousand immigrants most of them from Sub-Saharan African countries.