King Mohammed receives UNICEF director general
Morocco, Culture, 5/22/2001

Morocco's King Mohammed VI received Monday evening at the Royal Palace in Marrakesh Director General of the UNICEF, Ms Carol Bellamy, who was accompanied by the UNICEF representative in Morocco, Olivier Theo Decreef. Advisor to the king, Ms Zoulikha Nasri, and minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, attended the audience.

Ms Bellamy is visiting Morocco to attend the conference of Arab and African finance ministers, held in Marrakesh May 21-23, to prepare for the World Child Summit, due next September 19-21 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

At a news conference she held here on the eve of the conference Ms Bellamy called states to upgrade childhood-directed actions and to earmark a part of their budgets to children protection and schooling.

She said that throughout the world, 110 million children, including 70 million girls, do not attend school and that even if problems differ from a continent to another, children are generally affected by AIDS, malnutrition, violence and sexual exploitation.

Ms Bellamy called for an action program in favor of children and for a strategy promoting children's rights culture.

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