Princess Lalla Mereym pleads for a fairer, more caring world
Morocco-Regional, Culture, 2/7/2003

Morocco's Princess Lalla Mereym pleaded in Paris on Wednesday for a fairer and more caring world, at the opening ceremony of UNESCO's goodwill ambassadors' meeting, held on Feb.5-6 to tackle sustainable development and literacy challenges.

Lalla Meryem called upon participants to share the worries of mothers who witness in their parts of the world the accumulation of conflict ingredients, while nurturing hope that wisdom and reason will prevail.

"Ignoring or veiling this reality within the UNESCO, an organization that bears in its frontispiece the vocation of all countries to enrich each other, would be injurious to this institution that gathered and mobilised us," said Princess Lalla Mereym.

For the Moroccan Princess, peace and dialogue virtues must prevail and priority must be given to scaling down bills that oblige a third of mankind to live in poverty, while tens of thousands of children are denied schooling.

"The challenge to reduce misery and ensure more knowledge is in the very heart of our session and must mobilize our energies," she stressed, insisting "this fight involves all of us in the name of justice, solidarity but also in the name of reason." While advising against any simplistic identification between violence and poverty, ignorance, she nevertheless stressed that extremism breeds on misery.

This same conclusion has been drawn during the Euro-Med meeting on human security, and child rights, held last October in Marrakesh, recalled Lalla Meryem.

The UNESCO's goodwill ambassadors' annual meeting is scheduled to discuss "The United Nations' Decade for Literacy (2003-2012)", "The International Year of Fresh Water" as well as the introduction of year 2003 priority programs.

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