King Mohammed chairs ministers' council, focus on Arabic language
Morocco, Politics, 8/30/2002

Morocco's King Mohammed VI who was accompanied by his brother Prince Moulay Rachid chaired Thursday at the royal palace in Rabat a ministers' council.

The council examined and approved a number of draft texts, including a draft law setting up the Mohammed VI Academy for the Arabic language, said the official spokesman for the Royal Palace, Hassan Aourid.

This institution is directly placed under the sovereign's high patronage and bears the sovereign's name, which evidences the special interest the sovereign grants to the materialization of the educational and cultural project provided for in the national charter on education and training, the spokesman said in a statement.

It also evidences the sovereign's keenness to set up a high level national institution, entrusted with promoting Arabic, a fundamental component of the Moroccan identity, which is so rich by its pluralism, the spokesman said.

The institution will mainly consecrate the role of the Arabic language in education, culture and sciences through its adapting to the evolution of science and technology. It will equally endeavor to modernize, simplify and rationalize Arabic to make it accessible to the whole society and to enable it cover all the sectors of activity in the country.

The council examined and approved a draft law-decree setting up the agency for the promotion of the southern provinces, the spokesman said, adding the draft translates the sovereign's resolve to make of this agency a strong lever for an integrated economic and social development of the kingdom's southern provinces.

The council also examined and approved a draft law-decree setting up the special development zone: Tangier-Mediterranean. The text provides for the creation of an integrated economic development zone, including an international port complex as well as free economic zones and zones for tourism promotion whose carrying out will be entrusted to a special agency, as announced by the sovereign in this year's Throne Day speech.

The sovereign likewise approved draft decrees creating free exportation zones within the Tangier-Mediterranean economic port complex, the spokesman said. He added that the sovereign, fulfilling the wish of his faithful subjects in the province of Jerada (north eastern Morocco), decided to integrate this province under the scope of the agency for the promotion of the northern provinces to enable it benefit from the development projects initiated by the agency.

The council equally examined and approved a law-decree putting an end to the state monopoly in matters of radio and TV.

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