Danish NGOs praise Moroccan human rights experience
Morocco-Denmark, Politics, 9/8/1999

A group of Danish human rights non-governmental organizations have praised in a meeting with Moroccan Human Rights Minister Mohamed Aujjar the Moroccan human rights experience.

According to a statement of the Human Rights Ministry, Aujjar, who is currently touring Scandinavian countries, held on Tuesday work sessions with members of the "Danish Human Rights Center," reputed worldwide for its expertise in human rights issues.

The minister briefed the organization on the Moroccan human rights experience which has gained considerable assets and is set to develop even more.

He cited as part of the gains the creation in Morocco of a center of documentation, information and training in human rights with the collaboration of the United Nations and a project to set up a network of children's and women's psychological and legal assistance centers. He also briefed the center's members on the Moroccan policy toward human rights. He said the Moroccan constitution stresses in its preamble Morocco's adherence to human rights as they are universally recognized.

On Monday, Danish Justice Minister Frank Jensen, who met Aujjar, voiced "respect" and "satisfaction" over Morocco's experience in human rights and said his country is ready to make Morocco benefit from its own experience, as part of a dynamic partnership cooperation between the two countries.

A statement of the Moroccan Human Rights Ministry said the Moroccan minister's visit aims at informing local officials on the Moroccan human rights experience, marked by the adoption as early as in 1958 of a code of public freedoms, the construction of bases for the rule of law and the renewal, by King Mohammed VI, of the priority given to human rights.

King Mohammed VI, in his first throne speech last month, said, "We are attached to the constitutional monarchy, the multiparty system, economic liberalism, regionalization, construction of the rule of law, the protection of human rights and individual and collective freedoms, the safeguarding of security and stability for all...."

Aujjar also focused on the king's official commitments, reaffirming that the march of democracy and human rights in Morocco will deepen and be consolidated. He cited as an example the setting up of an independent commission that will set compensations to be granted to missing persons or their families and to victims of arbitrary imprisonment.

His tour will then lead him to Sweden.

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