Addis-Ababa(Ethiopie), December 01, 2015 (SPS)- Representatives of the Saharawi Popular Army participated in meeting of Experts of the North African Regional Capacity (NARC), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the four member States of the NARC, Algeria, Egypt, Libya and the Saharawi Republic, in addition to representatives of Mauritania and Tunis, the two remaining North African countries not yet members in this regional capacity.
The participants discussed various issues mainly the human and material contributions from member States to operationalize the administrative and logistic components of the NARC.
The meeting also discussed the various other components of the NARC, especially the military, civil and police components, in addition to the issues of the rotating presidency of the NARC, which was with Algeria and will be handed to Egypt as the new chair.
The meeting also discussed the financial issues related to the administration and financing the NARC, in addition to the possibility of changing the Headquarters of this capacity from Libya to another member State.
The Saharawi delegation is chaired by Sidi Mohamed Muly Zein, the Inspector-General for the Saharawi Popular Army, Bachir Mouloud, the Saharawi Military attaché in Algiers, Mohamed Mahjoub, a central director at the Ministry of Defence, and Mohamed Fadel Salama, representing the General Administration of Finance.
The opening meeting was also attended by the Saharawi Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU, H.E. Lamine Baali. (SPS)
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