Prince Moulay Rachid winds up visit to new york

NEW YORK, Feb.07 (MAP)- Prince Moulay Rachid, who led the Moroccan delegation to the meeting of the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly on children held in the United Nations headquarters here last week, wound up his visit to New York Tuesday.

During his stay, Prince Moulay Rachid conferred with heads of several participating delegations and senior UN executives. He equally held a meeting with the caucus of representatives of the non-aligned movement, non-permanent members of the Security Council, on various issues submitted to the Security Council and that are of interest to the NAM, including the Sahara issue.

The meeting was described as very "fruitful" since it gave the caucus members "another dimension" of the political issues submitted to the Security council and in the first instance the Sahara issue.

Prince Moulay Rachid delivered an address before the preparatory committee renewing Morocco's pledge to promote and uphold children's rights and to assume responsibility regarding children, in accordance with the World Declaration and other legal covenants related to children's rights.

"We renew. our firm determination to go ahead, take up all challenges, overcome the constraints and assume our basic responsibility regarding children, in accordance with the Convention and other legal frames related to children's rights," said Prince Moulay Rachid, who is chairman of the Moroccan preparatory committee for the special session.

Princess Lalla Meriem, chairwoman of the Moroccan observatory for children's rights and chairwoman of the Moroccan association of support to the UNICEF, was also part of the Moroccan delegation to the preparatory committee meeting. On the sidelines of the meeting, she conferred with several heads of participating delegations and UN senior executives.

Princess Lalla Meriem wound up her visit to New York last Saturday.