Morocco

Excerpt – Translated Message from the Royal Address to Participants in the Conference held in Rabat on the occasion of the National Day of Moroccan Diplomacy, April 28, 2000

« This is why We have committed Ourselves to outlining the key foundations of a forward-looking vision to meet these challenges, and to intensifying efforts to establish a new institutional framework, enabling Morocco to assume the leading role it is naturally destined for — thanks to its historical ties, spiritual influence, geostrategic position, and democratic, modernist societal project.
Our aim is to build a strong and coherent diplomacy that will reinforce Morocco’s role at the dawn of the third millennium.

This requires, first and foremost, the strengthening of coordination capacities within traditional diplomacy — both at the level of the central administration and diplomatic missions — so it may follow up effectively and involve all non-governmental actors in diplomatic action. It also means consolidating non-governmental diplomacy — associative, parliamentary, economic, cultural, and media-related — and ensuring a more visible presence in the new arenas where our absence has long been exploited by opponents of our territorial integrity. »