In this long line, His Majesty King Mohammed VI has always defended the heritage of his ancestors, out of conviction and loyalty, promoting coexistence and sanctifying the plural Moroccan identity, indicated Mr. Bourita during a high-level event. level initiated Monday by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Organized on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, on the fight against anti-Semitism and hate speech through education, this meeting saw the participation in particular of the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, and the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay.
In his speech, Mr. Bourita noted that the Kingdom, which genetically carries tolerance and living together, has been and will remain a space of freedom, cultural mixing and the meeting of civilizations.
Noting the worrying rise in racial, religious or national hate speech, he stressed that the fight against this phenomenon requires strong leadership, a permanent fight based on concrete actions and coherence between the national level and multilateral action, recalling the speech of His Majesty the King, who underlined, on the occasion of Pope Francis’ visit in March 2019, that “to confront radicalism, the response is neither military nor budgetary, it has a single name: Education”.
“If Morocco is convinced that education is the future, said the minister, it is already preparing the future of education”, an education that prepares for citizenship, ethics and universal values of tolerance and living together.
On the multilateral level, Mr. Bourita recalled that Morocco was at the origin of the development of the first resolution of the UN General Assembly on the fight against hate speech, adopted in 2019, as well as as well as the resolution proclaiming June 18 as the International Day Against Hate Speech.