HM King Mohammed VI has placed the human element above all other considerations, given that the human heritage is “the greatest wealth” in Morocco, Samir Addahre, Permanent Delegate Ambassador of the Kingdom to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) stressed on Monday.
“No collective project can prosper if it does not make sense for everyone”, said the Moroccan diplomat during the 211th session of the executive council of Unesco, held by videoconference and which was dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact in particular on the missions of the UN organization.
Major issues such as that of education made Morocco close its schools for only 21 weeks in thirteen months and to have education personnel vaccinated as a priority, underlined the Moroccan ambassador, recalling that, to meet this challenge, what was needed is a strong political will at the highest level of the State and to demonstrate an unprecedented capacity for adaptation.
This global crisis has revealed great disparities between developed and developing countries and has contributed to exacerbating multifaceted tensions across the planet, including the frantic race for the manufacture, delivery and inoculation of serum, highlighting a new geopolitics of the vaccine, underlined the Moroccan diplomat, noting that the health crisis also calls into question “the balances of power in the world”.
In his statement at the plenary debate of the Executive Council, the ambassador maintained that Unesco’s role will henceforth be to avoid, in this troubled context, that these new battles do not come to bury our illusions for the strengthening of a solidarity-based multilateral world, noting that “the first lesson to be learned is that we must all accept, with realism and humility, to constantly question ourselves, if we want to overcome the difficulties”.
The decisive role of culture was also addressed in the speech of Morocco as an engine that promotes the resilience of societies. “Much more than stimulating creativity, it brings people together, it transcends what makes us different, to preserve everything that unites us”, underlined Addahre who took this opportunity to thank the World Heritage Center and the evaluation bodies for their support efforts and constructive interaction with Member States.
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