Aqaba Process meeting: Nations unite to defeat terrorism — Badaru

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA—MINISTER of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has said the 10th variation of the Aqaba Process Heads of State and Government Meeting successful Rome reaffirmed the corporate resoluteness of nations crossed the satellite to enactment unneurotic successful confronting the scourge of terrorism.

Speaking with journalists connected the sidelines of the gathering yesterday, the curate described the gathering arsenic “a precise bully and robust engagement” that demonstrated a increasing planetary statement connected the request for multinational practice to decision terrorism, particularly successful West Africa.”

He further explained: “The large takeaway is the information that determination is multinational practice successful warring against terrorism. All nations judge that if 1 state is sick due to the fact that of terrorism, successful nary time, it volition impact the different countries. So, countries astir the satellite judge that together, we person to enactment and combat terrorism.”

The Aqaba Process, launched by King Abdullah II of Jordan successful 2015, brings unneurotic satellite leaders, information chiefs, and policymakers to make collaborative strategies for countering convulsive extremism.

This year’s meeting, co-hosted by Italy and Jordan, focused connected the evolving information challenges successful West Africa and the Sahel region.

According to Badaru, the countries represented astatine the Rome gathering agreed to deepen argumentation coordination and stock quality and resources to fortify determination and planetary efforts against terrorism.

“The countries resolved to enactment unneurotic and supply some argumentation and solutions for multinational coercion fight, and I judge it is precise bully for our country, being the person successful West Africa and the Sahel,” helium said.

Reflecting connected the initiative’s interaction implicit the past decade, the Defence Minister noted that the Aqaba Process had “cut down bureaucracy” and created a level for frank and predominant discussions among satellite leaders.

“This gathering has truly chopped down bureaucracy; leaders conscionable freely and often, and person precise frank and unfastened discussions connected ways and means to combat coercion successful the world. The absorption present is West Africa, and I judge Nigeria stands to summation a batch from the practice that this gathering brings about,” helium said.
Badaru added that the collaboration fostered by the Aqaba Process implicit the past 10 years has strengthened counter-terrorism coordination and assets sharing among participating countries.
“Looking astatine the past 10 years, determination has been a batch of support, a batch of collaboration betwixt nations successful the combat against terrorism,” helium said.

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