Minister of Justice and President of the 38th session of Arab Ministers of Justice council meeting, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi has confirmed that Arab Ministers of Justice council’s sessions have always constituted an important opportunity where an elite of jurists and engineers of justice in our countries meet to discuss and talk about various issues of common interest and about means to improve and reinforce mechanisms of Arab common cooperation to confront challenges and make gains especially in the fight against organized crime, terrorism and some update crimes.
Mr. Ouahbi said in a statement made during the 38th session of the council meeting, held in the morning of Thursday, October 20, 2022 in Ifrane, that if deployed efforts have contributed to create important accumulation at the technical level in particular either as regard to indicative regulations or agreement in what is called technical commitment, there’s still some weak spots detected at the level of efficiency.
Mr. Ouahbi added that “the matter needs the necessity to push our collective intelligence to create coordination mechanisms and a process of the best application of what we have agreed on, to exchange proposals and best practices in the context of bilateral or multilateral rules to earn time management and material costs through visits or bilateral meetings that may help find mutual solutions among each of us.”
Mr. Ouahbi continued in the same statement saying “We have previously confirmed this matter several times and have proposed the endorsement of channels of communication among magistrates as a mechanism that has proved to be efficient in narrowing the gap between legal and judicial systems and therefore make easier mechanisms of international cooperation and solve many practical problems.”
Minister Ouahbi considered that many current topics need today more cooperation reinforcement and exchange of visions and practices to keep up with questions and concerns raised at the international, regional and national levels.
According to Minister Ouahbi, there are a number of topics that need special handling in the context of changes occurring in the world such as the protection of some vulnerable categories like children, women, the elderly, people with special needs, and the privacy of citizens’ personal lives in the context of illegal use of new information technology means; and also to find appropriate mechanisms to manage intermarriage disputes among Arab countries’ citizens, which have increased over the last several years with negative impacts on children considered as the biggest losers.
In the same context, Mr. Ouahbi sees that justice is facing more and more challenges due to multiple interveners inside most Arab countries and this after the consolidation of the independence of the judiciary power inside our regimes; and also concerns to set up regulations to define the competencies of each side in a way to guarantee a proper functioning of the justice department in full respect for the principle of the judiciary power independence.