The Director General of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, on Wednesday held talks in Rabat with Luis Mora, resident representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Morocco.
During this meeting, Hachimi Idrissi and Mora discussed the social changes that Morocco has experienced and the means to support development efforts, including the role of the media.
Mora noted, in a statement to M24, MAP’s continuous news channel that Morocco has experienced social transformations, particularly at the demographic level and family structures, as well as changes as regards new emerging themes including the issue of climate change, the digital economy and the role of the media in development.
The UN official focused in particular on the key role of the various stakeholders (institutions, civil society, media, UN agencies) in setting up and advancing new development models.
During this meeting, Mora congratulated the Moroccan news agency which “has succeeded in adapting and becoming a reference in Morocco and at the international level”. “I commend the efforts made by MAP to give space for all voices to express themselves,” he said.
Morocco, a country on the move, has been able to offer a space of openness facilitating and promoting calm debates on issues of interest to the population, he pointed out.
For his part, Hachimi Idrissi highlighted the transformations experienced by MAP and shed light on the agency’s action to support social changes by expanding its offer (radio, television, electronic websites, etc.), enriching its production through global media activity and declining its policy on all vectors.
Hachimi Idrissi noted that in addition to the modernization of the texts that governed the agency, MAP has adopted an approach based on diversity, pluralism and the renewal of its human resources.
MAP’s Director General also focused on the challenges facing the agency to support the dynamics and modernization of Moroccan society, particularly the media sector.
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