Cascais (Portugal) – In a world crossed by ”denial, exclusion and rejection of the other”, Morocco has made the richness of its diversity ”the central reactor” of its social modernity, underlined, Tuesday in Cascais (Portugal), the Advisor to HM the King, Mr. André Azoulay.
“Strengthened by the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, Morocco has never been as legitimate, as heard and listened to by the Community of Nations as it is today,” declared Mr. Azoulay in the plenary session of the 10th World Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, which opened in the presence of the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the King of Spain Felipe VI, and the High Representative of UNAOC, Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Speaking on the theme ”United in peace for another future”, HM the King’s Advisor noted that ”in a time and space where the deadly illusions of exclusion and denial of the other flourish , Morocco embodies what the Alliance of Civilizations wants to say to the world, listening to all stories and respecting the identity, history and spirituality of each person.
”Which other country today can, as Morocco does, bring together thousands of Muslims, Jews and Christians who find themselves in the land of Islam for the joy of being together and to express their commitment to the universality of peace and the primacy of life,” he assured.
“It is a reality that Morocco embodies, by remaining faithful to all the paradigms, to all the criteria which are those of a culture of peace nourished by the same justice and the same dignity for all,” added Mr. Azoulay, who was a member of the High Level Group set up more than twenty years ago by the United Nations to create the Alliance of Civilizations.
“It was at a time when the villainous theories of the clash of our religions, our histories and our civilizations were breaking into the breviary of the community of nations,” he recalled.
And to note that if the situation the world was experiencing twenty years ago was worrying, that of today is even more serious. “We have all gone backwards, the world has gone backwards,” regretted Mr. Azoulay, stressing that “the world today accommodates itself too easily to a current situation made up of archaisms and regressions that we wrongly believed definitively over.”
“The time has come for us to take the proper measure of the current situation which requires more than ever that the United Nations system remains the space in which the world must regain sanity and restore its chances to the universality of peace which is the most fragile, the most central and the most modern achievement of our civilizations,” he pleaded.
In this perspective, he recalled that the resolution voted by the UN General Assembly to create the Alliance of Civilizations outlined in a “clear and precise manner the road map for our societies to give chances to a just and peaceful peace. definitive between Palestinians and Israelis”, emphasizing “the coherence and constancy of the policy implemented by Morocco, which has always made a solution of two States equal in rights, dignity, justice and freedom, its creed, to restore its chances for peace.
