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Now, I will give the floor to the speaker from the Kingdom of Morocco.
As mentioned before the session, speaking of the concept of mediation
and mediation institutions, current issues come to our mind. We do
not even think of their historic background. When we look at different
organizations under different names, e.g. vilayet, I mean, a mediation
organization reporting to the Kingdom since 1956, we see that this
country has insights. Now, floor goes to Mr. Abdelaziz Benzakour who
will listen to very attentively.

ABDELAZİZ BENZAKOUR, (Ombudsman of Morocco)

Actually, I really wanted to speak in Arabic but unfortunately we do not
have Arabic interpreter. I would also speak in English but my English
is not that good. So, I will switch to French. And French is my second
language after Arabic, my apologies.
Mr. President,
Colleagues,

Distinguished ambassadors,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Prior to addressing this honorable audience the proposed topic I would
like to thank His Excellency the mediator of the Republic of Turkey as
well as the officials who have organized this important event, for their
kind invitation for me to participate and pleasure to be among the
speakers of this session. I am also happy to be on this land where the
idea of creation of an ombudsman in the north of Europe that inspired
later different countries first emerged during of a Swedish monarch
about two centuries ago and where he came across the existence of
an Islamic body devoted to resolve the conflicts between the subjects
of the empire and the officials.
I have been charged with the mission of presenting during this session
a personal testimony and a tangible illustration of the presence
within the same country of an institution of administrative mediation
simultaneously with another body dedicated for the promotion and
protection of human rights. I think that this task would be enlightened
in the two institutions during many years in order to understand their
potential interaction and their specific intervention in their respective

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