III Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference (Stuttgart, 15th and 16th April 1999)

The Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting in Stuttgart focused on the importance of attaining stability within the Mediterranean area.  To this end, the Ministers defined a strategy to strengthen international co-operation and political discourse in order to address common security concerns.  At this meeting, the elaboration of a ‘Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Peace and Stability’ was discussed, aimed at ensuring political dialogue, as well as the progressive development of regional co-operation and preventive diplomacy.

The Ministers decided to further pursue political dialogue on the issues mentioned in the first chapter of the Barcelona Declaration (political and security collaboration), as well as the project of establishing a Euro-Mediterranean joint action system for disaster prevention, adequate management of migration processes, the fight against terrorism and organised crime, and to combat drugs trafficking.

 

 

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