The French Minister of the Interior salutes the great effort of HM the King for culture and cultural openness
The French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, welcomed on Thursday in Rabat, the great effort led by HM King Mohammed VI to promote culture and cultural openness. The French official, who visited the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom, said he was “very happy to be in Morocco to reiterate all the friendship that is there between our two countries “, welcoming” the great effort “led by HM King Mohammed VI” for culture and cultural openness “.
Noting that his first international trip was reserved for the Maghreb and Morocco, the French minister underlined, in a statement to the press, which he intends to stress during his talks with Moroccan officials that, as in the past “we have a collaboration to have, for tomorrow, which is strong”.
Gerald Darmanin indicated that he was charged by the President of the Republic to tell Moroccan officials that “this collaboration must continue to exist despite the pandemic crisis which sometimes handicaps the relations that two brotherly countries can have”. For his part, the president of the Foundation of the National Museum (FNM), Mehdi Qotbi, noted that the French minister began his trip to Morocco with a visit to the Mohammed VI Museum, through culture and art,
Mehdi Qotbi noted that the visit of the French official coincides with the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the museum, believing that this visit of the French minister “represents a crowning for us”. The president of the FNM was also delighted that Gerald Darmanin began his first visit abroad to Morocco and that this visit began with the museum, and “by transmitting strong messages to Moroccans, but above all a message of culture to around the world ”, stressing that culture is the“ best vehicle for understanding and knowing others ”.
