Throughout 2025, Moroccan diplomacy pursued its action with determination and consistency, working for a multilateralism that takes into account the profound challenges and transformations that have taken place on the international scene.
Thus, Morocco’s continuous, ambitious, and responsible presence within international and regional organizations in 2025 was marked by a sustained dynamic of candidacies, elections, and appointments to positions of the highest responsibility. These results reflect a renewed confidence by the international community in Morocco’s credibility and in the relevance of its contributions to major global issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Residing Abroad underlines.
This dynamic translated concretely into unprecedented results. The year 2025 recorded numerous electoral successes, appointments, and renewals of mandates, covering more than fifty international and regional organizations and mechanisms, in fields as varied as peace and security, disarmament, human rights, sustainable development, economic governance, digital affairs, public integrity, transport, culture, science, and sport.
Likewise, 2025 saw unprecedented breakthroughs for the Kingdom in this area, strengthening Morocco’s international standing and illustrating the growing anchoring of Moroccan leadership within international bodies, under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist Him.
In this regard, Morocco was elected for the first time to the Presidency of the 68th Session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) for the year 2025. Another first for the Kingdom was its accession to the Presidency of the International Nuclear Societies Council (INSC) for the 2025–2026 term. In the same vein, Morocco was designated President of the United Nations Conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
Morocco was also elected for the first time to the Presidency of the International Network of Corruption Prevention Authorities (NCPA). In addition, the Kingdom recorded major breakthroughs in international maritime governance by acceding for the first time to the position of First Vice President of the Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for 2026–2027, while maintaining its seat on the Council and holding an additional Vice Presidency within the same Organization’s Council.
It was also for the first time that Morocco was elected to the Presidency of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), to the Presidency of the International Olive Council for the year 2026, as well as to the Governing Board of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
On the parliamentary and international judicial front, 2025 was marked by two major successes: the election, for the first time, to the Bureau of the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and the election, for the first time since the creation of the International Association of Judges (IAJ) in 1953, of a Moroccan magistrate to the position of Vice President of the IAJ.
In addition, Morocco’s integration into the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) and its election to the Steering Committee of the MENA-ARIN Network, responsible for the recovery of illicit assets, complete the new responsibilities assumed by the Kingdom in international governance and public integrity mechanisms.
These unprecedented achievements are part of the continuity of the breakthroughs recorded in 2024, notably the Kingdom’s accession to the Presidency of the Human Rights Council, helping to strengthen a Moroccan positioning now recognized as structuring within the multilateral system.
Another striking feature of Morocco’s candidacy record in 2025 is the continuation of renewals to strategic responsibilities assumed by the Kingdom within major multilateral organizations. These renewals consecrate the Kingdom’s ability to sustainably assume responsibilities requiring expertise, mobilization, and efficiency.
This strengthened dynamic of international confidence was reflected in the consecutive renewal of Morocco’s mandate in the governing bodies of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU). These renewals were crowned by the Kingdom’s accession to Vice Presidency posts, as is the case within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and for the Executive Council of that Organization, further consolidating Morocco’s place in the governance of these international institutions.
In the same spirit, Morocco, as an active actor in international peace and security, continued at the United Nations to hold the Presidency of the Central African Republic Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), a position for which it has been regularly re-elected.
This dynamic is also reflected in Morocco’s election as a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO for the 2025–2029 term, with a high score within its group, and to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
With regard to food security, Morocco’s re-election to the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the 2026–2029 period, as well as its election to the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP), confirm the Kingdom’s place among the actors committed to addressing global challenges related to hunger, agricultural resilience, and food security.
On environmental, climate, and sustainable development issues, Morocco’s accession to the Vice Presidency of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) for North Africa, and its participation in UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Seabed Authority, reflect a coherent commitment to the sustainable management of natural resources and the protection of global public goods.
Morocco also confirmed its role as a pole of stability at the regional level, notably through the exercise of the rotating Presidency of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, as well as through its active participation in continental specialized bodies and the sectoral councils of the League of Arab States, in the fields of justice, energy, water, and tourism.
Another distinctive marker of Morocco’s 2025 candidacy record is the choice placed on Moroccan expertise in the field of emerging issues on the international agenda. In this respect, the Kingdom demonstrated its ability to anticipate and accompany major global transformations, whether societal shifts, environmental sustainability imperatives, or accelerated technological development, including the new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In this context, Morocco’s accession to the Executive Committee of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), to the Vice Presidency of INTERPOL’s Global Expert Group on Cybercrime, and to the Vice Presidency of the OPCW Temporary Working Group on AI position the Kingdom among the states actively contributing to international reflection on the benefits of digital transformation and the importance of responsible and ethical use of emerging technologies.
The year 2025 also consolidated Morocco’s role as a force for convergence and compromise by assuming responsibilities of presidency, facilitation, and coordination on major global issues on the international agenda. This international recognition illustrates the capacity of Moroccan diplomacy to bring actors together and build consensus, to drive a common dynamic within its groups of belonging, Arab, African, and Atlantic, and to propose balanced solutions.
Morocco has established itself as a credible mediator in several crises thanks to a long-term vision carried by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist Him. Thus, within the United Nations, Morocco ensured co-facilitation functions on major global processes. By way of illustration, Morocco assumed the responsibilities of co-facilitating the Social Development Summit in 2025, co-facilitating the United Nations Resolution on Enforced Disappearances, serving as a “Core State” of the 1st World Congress on Enforced Disappearances, and holding the position of Vice President of the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3).
All of these achievements consolidate the active role of the Kingdom of Morocco as a credible and responsible actor in the governance of the multilateral system. These successes reflect a renewed confidence of the international community in Moroccan diplomacy, a diplomacy founded on values, driven by a clear strategic vision, and exercising responsible and constructive leadership on the international stage.
Editorial team/le7tv