Press Release (2006)042 6 April 2006

Deputy Secretary General and the North Atlantic Council visit to Morocco   News High-level NATO Mediterranean Dialogue event in Morocco On 6-7 April 2006 the Deputy Secretary General of NATO Ambassador Alessandro Minuto Rizzo and the North Atlantic Council will travel to Rabat to participate together with representatives of the seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries in the first 26+7 political consultation meeting in a Mediterranean Dialogue country . The high level event in Rabat will represent a further step in the enhancement of the political dimension of the Mediterranean Dialogue, following the Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting in December 2004 in Brussels and the Defence Ministers meeting in February 2006 in Taormina. MEDIA ADVISORY The Deputy Secretary General of NATO Ambassador Alessandro Minuto Rizzo will give a press conference on 7 April at 12.45 at the Tour Hassan Hotel in Rabat. Members of the press wishing to take part in the press conference should contact for accreditation the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, at the following telephone number: + 212 37761472.

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