The work of the 6th high-level meeting of the Presidents of Constitutional Courts, Supreme Courts and African Constitutional Councils, began on Saturday in Cairo, with the participation of 40 countries of the Continent, including Morocco which is represented at this meeting of three days hosted by the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, by a delegation led in particular by the President of the Constitutional Court, Saïd Ihrai, the Deputy President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, Mohamed Abdennabaoui, and the first President of the Administrative Court of call from Rabat, Mohamed Skalli Houssaini.
The meeting will discuss constitutional issues of common interest among African countries, as well as strengthening judicial, legal and constitutional cooperation. It also deals with several fundamental axes, in particular the constitutional guarantees established for the development of common natural resources and the international regulation of their exploitation.
These are the constitutional and legal issues that can arise between countries that share natural resources (rivers, oil fields, maritime exclusive economic zones), and when political borders remain the common denominator instead of the natural situation.
As for the second axis, it concerns the constitutional protection of the principle of citizenship, as a means of constitutional control and equal rights for all, as well as the question of the constitutional protection of the rights of migrants and refugees, which the countries of the world in particular, African.
It is also regarding strengthening the role of those responsible for constitutional documents to benefit from the joint effort to establish general guarantees for all States in order to provide constitutional protection to refugees.
The axes of the meeting also include constitutional guarantees in the protection of cultural specificities, in the era of globalization and the definition of the limits separating the two concepts from a constitutional framework. It is also regarding establishing social justice from an economic perspective and supporting certain classes and strains to ensure that no economic disparity affects society.
