Chairwoman of Foreign Affairs, National Defense and Moroccan Expatriates Neila Mia Tazi in the Committee of the House of Councillors, met on Tuesday with Eric Falt, regional director of the UNESCO office in Morocco.
During this meeting, the two parties reaffirmed their willingness to strengthen and develop their cooperation in all fields by supporting initiatives and consolidating exchanges on numerous programs aimed at training and preserving traditional knowledge and regional specificities, according to a statement from the parliament’s upper house.
The two sides also welcomed HM King Mohammed VI’s patronage for the promotion of arts, culture, creativity and heritage, as underlined by the Sovereign in his message to the participants of the 17th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage, to be held in Rabat in November 2022, according to the same source.
Tazi also welcomed the many programmes undertaken by UNESCO to protect and preserve tangible and intangible heritage in all its forms around the world, as well as the international agenda of the UN organisation, which aims to preserve the specificities and civilisational and cultural aspects of the world.
For his part, the regional director of the UNESCO office welcomed the dynamism that the Kingdom is experiencing in the cultural field, praising the efforts made to protect the country’s tangible and intangible heritage, which contributes to the dissemination of Moroccan identity and values and the development of Moroccan expertise in these fields.
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