The Kingdom's strategy is consistent with the provisions of the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees, Cavaliéri said in an interview with MAP, calling in this regard consolidating the achievements through the a sound legal framework for organizing asylum and better managing refugee flows.

He underlined that the countries that have managed refugee flows as best are those that have a legal framework that set out the basic guarantees of refugee protection and the conditions for granting refugee status and the legal situation deriving from that status.

He added that the UNHCR works closely with Moroccan authorities and civil society to register applications and process cases to determine who is qualified for refugee status, to provide legal and humanitarian assistance to this category (support for the education of children, medical care and legal aid) and to enable refugees to achieve socio-professional empowerment through financing income-generating activities.

According to a report published by UNHCR on June 19, 2017, the number of forcibly displaced persons in the world has increased considerably from 33.9 million in 1997 to 65.6 million in 2016, reaching a new record, according to Cavaliéri.

MAP