Brussels, 01/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - Last Friday in New York, Morocco and Spain carried out the launch of an initiative on the “promotion of mediation in the Mediterranean region” aiming to reduce the persistent tensions in the region in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations. Aside from the Middle East and the issue of Cyprus, the Mediterranean also suffers from incessant clashes between the two countries over territories and islands in the area of Moroccan sovereignty without counting the differences over the western Sahara. “By launching this initiative, Morocco and Spain assigned themselves the objective of 'developing the practice of mediation in the Mediterranean region as a tool for the prevention and settlement of conflicts given the persistence of political crises in the region”, said the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Saad Dine El Otmani. Meetings have been set with the countries of the region. An initial meeting will be hosted by an initial meeting will be hosted by Spain, in Madrid in November 2012, the second in Rabat in 2013. “These two events will be followed by further meetings either in New York or in the Mediterranean region”, a Rabat source added. (FB/transl.fl).