Europe and Africa need to seek a "balance" between fighting illegal immigration and promoting legal immigration and development policies, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told more than 60 high-level representatives of European, North, West and Central African countries on Thursday. Moratinos inaugurated the first meeting of a following committee for the Euro-African conference on migration and development, held in the Moroccan capital Rabat in July 2006. Representatives of over 60 countries and about 20 international organizations attended the meeting in Madrid, the news agency DPA reported. The action plan adopted in Rabat stressed the need to share the responsibility for illegal immigration between the migrants' countries of origin, transit and destination, Moratinos stressed. "In this way, immigration will stop being an obligation for young Africans in the medium and long run," the minister said. The Madrid meeting prepared a second ministerial conference after Rabat, which is scheduled to take place in Paris in 2008. The Rabat conference was the first to bring together migrants' countries of origin, transit and destination.