Defense: meeting on security and military training in the Mediterranean

The defense ministers of the ...5 +5,... involving ten European and Maghreb countries of Western Mediterranean, adopted on Sunday in Tripoli, an action plan on the establishment of a common military training.

•     Ministers considered a Libyan proposal to create a training center on clearance and the establishment of a common military strategic analysis proposed by Tunis, told the press a senior Libyan ministry Defense.
  
      They also approved the creation in France of a common school of training of the military, said Ahmed Aoun, coordinator of the Libyan group 5 +5.
  
      “All these initiatives are part of our commitment to make the Mediterranean a pole of security, stability and development,” said the French Minister of Defense Hervé Morin at the end of the meeting.
  
      The French minister also said that aviation security and maritime cooperation in the Mediterranean were also examined.
  
      Libya has provided in 2008 the rotating chairmanship of the group created in December 2004 and brings together the countries of the northern Mediterranean (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta) and the Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya). Malta Sunday took over in 2009.
  
      The armed forces of the ten countries cooperate in four areas: maritime surveillance, civil protection, aviation safety and training recently.
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.