King Mohammed: We need inter-Arab cooperation far from demagogy
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 4/25/2001

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Monday called for inter-Arab cooperation to face up other regional groupings.

The king, who sent a message to a meeting in Fez on Arab Renaissance, stressed the need "to guarantee cooperation among our peoples, complementarity of their economies, and their adherence to the information revolution." "this, he said, will help us face up on an equal footing all unions and other regional groupings."

"We will only induce ourselves and our peoples into error, if we continue to call for cooperation with others and for the opening of borders, while our states have not yet been able to open their own borders, have not yet consecrated economic cooperation mechanisms between their societies and have not yet overcome the eruption of crises that squander their energies, cause the dismembering of their entities and paralyze their peoples' global development," the king said in the message read out by Mohamed Kettani, charg? de mission at the Royal office.

The king underlined that Arab Renaissance can be achieved only through the exploitation of the Arab identity, the Arab energy, and the Arab development dynamic and its interaction in accordance with universal laws ... mainly through the dissemination of democracy as a universal concept.

Stressing again the need for Arab unity, King Mohammed VI said "progress is accessible only to large united entities, which are the sole able to take up the challenge of the society of knowledge and information."

The Arab world is currently facing more than ever before challenges that will shape its future and the destiny of its peoples, in view of its position wherein it is torn apart by strategic ambitions and economic interests, the king said.

Such challenges, he said, require that the Arab states activate a genuine solidarity far from any demagogy and all logic of limited calculation.

The king called on participants in the Fez meeting to diagnose the points of weakness that hampered the Arab march and that were behind its lagging behind the evolution of the universal civilization."

The Colloquy, attended by thinkers and experts from 18 Arab countries, is debating a draft Arab Renaissance project that will be submitted to seminars to be held in several Arab countries. Arab unity, democracy, development, social justice and national independence are also on the agenda of the Fez meeting.

The meeting is sponsored by the Beirut-based center of studies on Arab unity, set up in 1975.

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