Morocco elected vice-president of preparatory committee of world aging conference

Morocco was elected vice-president of the preparatory committee of the world conference on aging, to be held next year in Madrid.

Morocco was elected to the post upon a recommendation of the African group at the United Nations.

The committee will start negotiations on the international plan on aging and will work out resolutions to the submitted to the UN Economic and Social Council.

The Madrid conference will revise an action plan, devised during the first world conference on aging held in 1982. The conference will also adopt a long-term strategy on aging.

The rate of elderly people in developing nations is expected to jump to 21 percent of the population by 2050.