King Mohammed: social organizations are a wealth to a nation

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Thursday urged civil associations actors to encourage the youth to adhere to the association movement.

Such movement "is an exemplary school of democracy and solidarity and a catalyst to liberate youth's energies to the service of society and general interest," said King Mohammed VI in a message to study days that opened Thursday in Rabat on "Association management."

The king also called on associations to adopt a modern and efficient management and to get grouped in federations to be an efficient interlocutor for their different partners.

"We encourage associations to transcend sterile traditional management methods, which still prevail in some of them, to adopt a modern and efficient management culture and to be grouped in federations that will allow them to pool their experiences and become this an efficient interlocutor for their different partners," said King Mohammed VI.

The king lauded associations as "genuine national wealth." The variety of the associations' fields of action and their suggestion power make of them inevitable partners for the achievement of the progress and modernization to which Morocco aspires, he said in the message read on his behalf by Royal Advisor, Ms. Zoulikha Nasri.

The study days, sponsored by the Mohammed V Solidarity Foundation, are studying issues related to the legal frame of associations, their fiscal management and means to boost coordination and partnership among them.

The opening session was attended by Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi.