The Sisi initiative aims to defeat terrorism at its roots

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi closed Sunday evening the Arab-African Youth Forum in Aswan to celebrate the accession of Egypt to the presidency of the African Union in the presence of more than 1500 young Africans and Arabs to discuss the problems and challenges of the African continent and the Arab region.

At the closing ceremony, Sissi announced, under the chairmanship of Egypt and the African Union, the establishment of an Arab-African mechanism to fight against terrorism and achieve security and security. stability.

The reality we face today, marked by war, conflict and an unprecedented deviation from the human context, forces us to intensify our efforts to renew humanitarian discourse and shape the future of humanity in order to include the meanings of stability, peace, development and overcoming conflict.

Brigadier General Khaled Okasha, director of the Egyptian Center for Strategic Thought and Studies and member of the Supreme Council for the Fight Against Terrorism, said that the goal of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Establishing a mechanism for combating Arab-African terrorism was a common action of all Arab and African countries in the fight against terrorism.

In a statement to Al-Ain Al-Akhbar, Okasha stressed that the individual action of countries can not completely eliminate terrorism, and that the Sisi initiative aims to work together to exchange experiences and information to deal with terrorism.

Okasha explained that the Arab and African region is going through an exceptional phase of spreading terrorism intensively, especially over the past five years, stressing that a joint action of the countries would definitively eliminate terrorism from the Arab and African region. .

For his part, MP Saad al-Jamal, deputy speaker of the Arab Parliament, a member of the Egyptian parliament, hailed Sisi's decision to establish a mechanism to fight against Arab-African terrorism, saying that "a global mechanism for the eradication of terrorism will be rooted".

The "beauty" in the statements to "Al-Akhbar" that the definition of terrorism is different at the international level, and the mechanism put in place by the Sisi will lead to a unified agreement on the definition of terrorism and the means of terrorism. 39; removing.

"The success of Arab and African countries in the eradication of terrorism requires joint training between countries fighting terrorism, the exchange of experiences and information and the transfer of Fugitive criminals, "he said, citing the success of Egypt since the 1980s and obtained global rates to defeat terrorism. Especially lately.