Princess Lalla Meriem to attend UN special session on children
Morocco, Culture, 5/8/2002

Morocco's Princess Lalla Meryem, chairwoman of the National Observatory of Children's Rights, headed to New York this Tuesday to represent King Mohammed VI at the UN special general assembly on children meeting this May 8-10.

Princess Lalla Meryem, personal representative of the sovereign to the special session, is accompanied by advisor to the King, Ms. Zoulikha Nasri, minister of employment, vocational training, social development and solidarity, Abbas EL Fassi, and minister of human rights, Mohamed Aujjar.

Minister in charge of women's condition, protection of family and childhood and integration of disabled persons, Ms. Nezha Chekrouni, secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperatiop, Taib Fassi Fihri, and delegates of several associations dealing with family and childhood related issues are also part of the princess party.

The landmark three-day special session will explore long-standing obstacles to young people's well-being and development, and will provide opportunity to appraise developments since the World Summit for Children in 1990, Ambassador Patricia Durrant of Jamaica, who co-chaired the preparatory committee for the session, had told a press conference in New York last week.

The special session will bring together at UN headquarters over 70 heads of State and government, as well as non-governmental organizations, children's advocates and children themselves. The session will also feature an unprecedented number of youths serving as representatives of their official delegations - so far, 179 of the 300 young participants have registered as members of government delegations from 101 countries.

The remaining children are part of accredited NGO delegations.

Many more young people are expected to sign up, forming a youthful counterpoint to the heads of state and government attending the session.

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