“Strengthened by the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, Morocco has never been as legitimate and as heard by the Comity of Nations as it is today”, Azoulay stated at the plenary session of the 10th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Global Forum, which kicked off in the presence of Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, King Felipe VI of Spain, and UNAOC High Representative Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Speaking on the theme of “United in Peace: Reshaping the Future,” HM the King’s advisor noted that “in a time and space where the deadly illusions of exclusion and denial of the other thrive, Morocco embodies the Alliance of Civilizations’ address to the world: listening to all narratives and respecting the identity, history and spirituality of each individual”.
“What other country today can bring together thousands of Muslims, Jews and Christians in the land of Islam, as Morocco does, for the joy of togetherness, and to express their commitment to the universality of peace and the primacy of life”, he said.
“This is a reality that Morocco embodies, remaining faithful to all the paradigms and the criteria of a culture of peace fueled by the same justice and dignity for all”, added Azoulay, who was a member of the High Level Group established over twenty years ago by the United Nations to create the Alliance of Civilizations.
“It was at a time when the slanderous theories of the clash of our religions, our histories and our civilizations were breaking into the breviary of the comity of nations”, he recalled.
And if the world’s situation twenty years ago was worrying, it became even more serious today. “We have all gone backwards, the world has gone backwards”, Azoulay regretted, pointing out that “the world today too easily adapts to an era of archaisms and regressions that we mistakenly believed to be definitively over”.
“The time has come for us to realize the current situation, which more than ever needs the United Nations system to prevail as the space where the world must see reason, and give a chance to the universality of peace, as the most fragile, central and modern achievement of our civilizations”, he pleaded.
In this context, he recalled that the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly to create the Alliance of Civilizations “clearly and precisely laid out the roadmap for our societies to offer a chance to a just and definitive peace between Palestinians and Israelis”, underlining “the coherence and consistency of the policy implemented by Morocco, which has always made a two-State solution with equal rights, dignity, justice and freedom its credo, to give peace a fair chance”.
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