Morocco's academy holds spring session in Rabat
Morocco, Education, 4/25/2000

King Mohammed VI opened Monday the spring session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, which marks this year its 20th anniversary.

The king hailed the choice of the session's topic, "The Thought of Hassan II: Authenticity and Renewal," and described the academy as a unique "prestigious scientific institution" owing to the variety of disciplines and sciences it covers.

After he recalled the setting up of the academy by the late King Hassan II to make of Morocco a land of dialogue and encounter between eminent thinkers and scientists to debate topical issues, he renewed commitment to go ahead and secure for Morocco further economic development and social security, consolidate the rule of the law, protect human rights and open up onto modernity without recanting the country's sacred values.

To fulfill this goal, the sovereign went on, we saw to it that the national education charter be at the forefront of the projects that we pledged to achieve and whose implementation we are closely following to build up a Moroccan society, productive, open and integrated in the world of communication and knowledge, to maintain Morocco at the vanguard of the civilizational march, to preserve its characteristic as a country of dialogue between cultures, and an example of balance between authenticity and modernity and a community of coexistence in dignity, moderation and tolerance.

The sovereign underscored the role the academy can play, along similar scientific institutions, in enlarging the scope of research and communication and in promoting skills. He urged the academicians to fulfill their mission and the academy's ideals, and in the first instance push forward a fruitful scientific and civilizational dialogue and foster cooperation with various institutions having the same concerns, in a world, he said, "where the establishment of a close relationship between science, knowledge and communication on the one hand and progress and human development on the other has become one of the requirements of societies' life and progress."

King Mohammed VI, who recalled his father's policy in matters of water preservation and dam construction, a policy that shielded the country from floods during rainy years and that alleviated the effects of drought during the years marked by rainfall shortage, and in order to take up the challenges thrown by drought at the country's food security, proposed that the academy's fall session debates "water policy and food security in Morocco at the dawn of the 21st century."

The academy's three-day session will mainly debate the components and characteristic traits of Hassanian thought, the political, international and religious dimensions of this thought, national achievements and testimonies.

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