RABAT, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The third Moroccan-French Parliamentary Forum will be held Friday in the Moroccan capital Rabat, the Moroccan parliament announced on Wednesday.

Parliament speakers from the two countries will chair the forum, the statement said.

This meeting will be an opportunity to discuss several issues of common concerns, on top of which are security cooperation and migration challenges, the statement said.

The meeting will also tackle economic cooperation and new means to achieve sustainable development in Africa, it added.

The forum, whose first session was organized in 2013 in Rabat and the second in Paris in 2015, aims to deepen exchanges on common challenges, including security, ecological challenges and sustainable development.