Both my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary attended the EU summit in Paris on 13 July, hosted by President Sarkozy to launch the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean. The UK welcomed the efforts of the French presidency to reinvigorate the EuroMed Partnership and to ensure the development of concrete projects aimed at tackling climate change, promoting energy and food security and education and training.
Our officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are in close contact with the French presidency regarding its broader agenda for north Africa. Key priorities for the EU during the French presidency include the negotiation of an EU-Libya framework agreement and the launching of negotiations on a statut avancé with Morocco. The UK maintains strong relations with all the countries of north Africa, working together on issues of migration, energy and food security and tackling the threats posed by terrorism.