In this long line, His Majesty King Mohammed VI has always defended the legacy of his ancestors, out of conviction and loyalty, promoting coexistence as well as the plural Moroccan identity, said Mr. Bourita during a high-level event initiated Monday by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Organized on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, the meeting, which focused on the fight against anti-semitism and hate speech through education, was marked by the participation of the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, and the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay.

In his speech, Mr. Bourita noted that the Kingdom, which is genetically a bearer of tolerance and living together, has been and will remain a space of freedoms, cultural mixing and meeting of civilizations.

Noting the worrying rise in racial, religious and national hate speech, the minister stressed that the fight against this phenomenon requires strong leadership, a permanent fight based on concrete actions and coherence between the national level and multilateral action, recalling the speech of His Majesty the King, who stressed, on the occasion of the visit of Pope Francis in March 2019, that "To tackle radicalism, the solution is neither military nor financial; that solution has but one name: Education."

“As Morocco is convinced that education is the future,” said the minister, “it is already preparing the future of education”, an education that prepares for citizenship, ethics and the universal values ​​of tolerance and living together.

On the multilateral level, Mr. Bourita recalled that Morocco was at the origin of the development of the first resolution of the UN General Assembly on the fight against hate speech, adopted in 2019, as well as the resolution proclaiming June 18 as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech.