"The excellent results of Moroccan football are the result of the implementation of the royal high directives aimed at establishing good governance and training and the creation of quality infrastructures," said Lekjaa at the Carrefour diplomatique (diplomatic crossroads) 126, organized Wednesday by the Diplomatic Foundation at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Maâmoura (near Salé), in the presence of foreign ambassadors accredited to Morocco.

According to a statement published on the FRMF website, Lekjaa welcomed the presence of Carrefour Diplomatique 126 at the Mohammed VI Football Complex and presented to the diplomatic corps present the FRMF's football development strategy, inspired by the far-sighted vision of HM King Mohammed VI.

This diplomatic crossroads was the occasion for the FRMF President to explain to the various foreign ambassadors the Federation's football development strategy, which has allowed the creation of the Mohammed VI Academy and the Mohammed VI Complex, both of which contribute to the emergence of talent and the breeding of future champions.

For his part, the President of the Diplomatic Foundation, Abdelati Habek, highlighted the role of sport in general and football in particular in Morocco as one of the levers of social development.

According to a press release issued by the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces of Burkina Faso, the talks between the two officials, which took place in the presence of the relevant FAR General Staff offices, focused on bilateral cooperation between the Royal Armed Forces and the Burkinabe Armed Forces.

On this occasion, the Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces and the Chief of Staff of the Burkinabe Armed Forces welcomed the ties of friendship, active solidarity and mutual trust that bind the Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Burkina-Faso, according to the same source.

Military cooperation between the two armies, which began in 1974, focuses mainly on the training of Burkinabé military personnel in FAR schools and training centers, as well as on training, the press release concludes.

The MASI.20, an index of the 20 most liquid stocks, gained 0.2% to 892.79 pts, while the MASI.ESG, an index of companies with the highest ESG rating, as published by Moody's ESG Solutions, advanced by 0.04% to 819.72 pts.

On the occasion of the ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, held on the sidelines of the 111th session of the International Labor Conference, the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills Youness Sekkouri stressed the Kingdom's full support for the conclusions of the group's meeting, particularly with regard to "the role that social dialogue must play as a space for addressing the new challenges resulting from digitization, artificial intelligence and new economic modes."

The group must have clear frameworks in the field of employment and social integration, said Sekkouri, stressing the need to support the efforts of the International Labor Organization (ILO), to provide decent employment for young people, women and vulnerable groups who have suffered the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis.

Morocco wants the United Nations' development goals to be achieved through collective action, he added, calling for the criteria of geographical justice to be strengthened within the Organization, and for a better balance in the contribution of countries from different continents.

He also highlighted the Moroccan experience in establishing social dialogue, which led to a historic agreement last year with the most representative trade unions and employers' representatives, thus achieving qualitative progress in the social field, despite the repercussions of difficult economic conditions and geopolitical crises.

The Kingdom has put in place a number of sectoral strategies aimed at providing decent work through a strong investment dynamic, as part of the work carried out under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, explained Sekkouri.

On the social justice issue, the Minister pleaded for a resilient social protection system, pointing out that the Kingdom is striving, thanks to a major Royal project, to provide social coverage for all its citizens.

Last year, more than 11 million people joined the list of beneficiaries from this system, he said, noting Morocco's readiness to share its experience in establishing social dialogue, generalizing social protection and labor market mediation, as well as implementing essential reforms, notably that of vocational training.

In a meeting with Youssef Hosni, Secretary General of the Ministry of National Planning, Urban Development, Housing and Urban Policy - Department of Housing and Urban Policy, who heads the Moroccan delegation to the 2nd Session of the UN-Habitat Assembly (June 5-9), UN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director Michal Mlynar praised the Kingdom's efforts to promote the social and environmental sustainability of human settlements, and to ensure access to decent housing for all.

During the meeting, Michal Mlynar also reiterated UN-Habitat's readiness to support the Kingdom in implementing its policies and programs in the field of housing and urban planning.

The UN official also emphasized the dynamic cooperation that drives Morocco's actions within the UN-Habitat Executive Council, which earned him unanimous re-election to the Council for a second two-year term.

In this respect, he stressed that Morocco is "a model" of cooperation in the field of housing and urban planning.

For his part, Hosni reviewed the Morocco-UN-Habitat cooperation program, which will be renewed until 2025, noting that this program defines the concrete actions that the Ministry undertakes, in line with the actions and strategy of UN-Habitat.

Hosni also underlined Morocco's efforts to reduce the housing deficit (70% since 2002) and combat slums, noting that the Kingdom is well on the way to eradicating this scourge, after 60 Moroccan towns were declared slum-free.

During these talks, the two parties reviewed a series of bilateral and regional issues of common interest.

Bourita and Hanegbi also welcomed the sustained momentum for closer cooperation between the Kingdom and Israel in all areas, particularly in terms of security.

"The international community has a duty to take firm and urgent measures to protect children in all regions of the world from the dispossession of their childhood, the deprivation of their basic rights and their military enrolment by armed groups, including the +polisario+, so that today's children in the Tindouf camps do not become tomorrow's extremists or terrorists", stressed Hilale at the Oslo international conference on "Protecting Children in Armed Conflict".

In a written contribution to the debates of the Conference's second interactive Panel entitled "Engaging with armed actors to protect children", the Moroccan ambassador said it was appalling to see armed groups continuing, with impunity, to forcibly recruit and indoctrinate children for terrorist and military purposes.

"This is the case of the armed terrorist groups Daesh, Al Chabab, Boko Haram, as well as the +polisario+, which continue to violate all international instruments of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and impose their obscurantist ideologies and military indoctrination on children in several regions of the world," he said.

He pointed out that the children targeted by these terrorist groups are deprived of their childhood, their most basic rights, their education, their protection and their well-being, as well as being condemned to live with the heavy physical consequences and psychological after-effects of their recruitment by armed groups.

Hilale recalled that children in the Tindouf camps live at the mercy of a separatist armed group, the "polisario", and suffer all forms of abuse and exploitation, recruitment and enlistment as child soldiers, noting that social networks "have helped to expose these barbaric and criminal practices, and to lift the veil on what has been going on in the Tindouf camps for decades".

"This armed separatist group is fully responsible for the enlistment of children in the Tindouf camps, which constitutes a war crime", he noted, stressing that international law stipulates that the use, conscription or enlistment of children in armed forces or armed groups, or using them to participate actively in hostilities, constitutes a serious violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

Morocco's ambassador and permanent representative to the UN recalled that the direct responsibility of the armed separatist group "polisario" for violations of children's rights in the Tindouf camps is indivisible from that of the host country, Algeria.

"This country shelters +polisario+, finances it, arms it and has transferred to it, de facto, its military, security and jurisdictional powers. This has enabled it to continue violating the rights of children in these camps with complete impunity", underlined Hilale, adding that by failing to oppose the atrocities committed by the armed separatist group "polisario", the host country "has failed to meet its international obligations arising from the instruments to which it is a party, and which grant a right of protection to children, considered by international law as an intrinsically vulnerable category".

During the first four days (June 2-5), the Fair, placed under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, attracted 62,012 visitors, an increase of 8% over the same period of the previous edition, it added.

Organized by the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication in partnership with the Wilaya of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region and the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra regional Council, SIEL-2023, which runs until June 11, is bringing together 661 Moroccan and foreign writers, intellectuals and poets, whose contributions light up the skies of this renowned international fair.

The aim of these meetings is to broaden the areas of cooperation between the Higher Shari'ah Authority and the Sharia Committee for Participatory Finance of the Supreme Council of Ulema, according to a BAM statement.

In this regard, several meetings were held to discuss developments and challenges facing participatory finance, as well as to exchange experiences and ways of promoting the participatory finance industry in both countries.

A meeting was also held between the UAE Higher Shari'ah Authority and the Moroccan Capital Market Authority, as well as the Insurance and Social Security Supervisory Authority.

This visit is an opportunity to strengthen cooperation and develop joint action between the above-mentioned institutions in the field of participatory finance in Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, the statement concluded.

On Tuesday, the MASI had closed with a loss of 0.31%.