On February 21, Chinese Ambassador to Morocco Li Changlin attended the celebration of "International Mother Language Day" organized by the Royal Berber Cultural Institute of Morocco, which was attended by Ahmed, President of the Royal Berber Cultural Institute of Morocco, Ambassadors of Bangladesh, Indonesia and Azerbaijan to Morocco, and Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in the Maghreb, Eric.
During the meeting with President Ahmed, Ambassador Li said that China is a multi-ethnic, multilingual and multi-lingual country, and the International Mother Language Day has been held for many years to raise everyone's attention to the protection of minority languages. China uses the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities to offer various disciplines and majors, and also uses minority languages in radio, television and various publications, with the aim of respecting and disseminating the culture they carry through the protection of minority languages. China is willing to carry out exchanges and cooperation with Morocco on better protection of minority languages, and work together to safeguard the linguistic and cultural diversity of ethnic groups and promote the inheritance and development of human civilization.
President Ahmad welcomed China's participation in the celebration of International Mother Language Day for the first time, and said that China's achievements in the protection of minority languages and cultures are obvious to all, and that Morocco is willing to launch cooperation projects with China in the protection of minority languages and cultural communication capacity-building, and make efforts to promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations on the basis of mutual respect and understanding around the protection of cultural diversity.
At the celebration, diplomats from various countries participating in the event recited poems or sang songs in their native languages, and Chen Xiajie, a young diplomat from our embassy, dressed in a traditional Chinese horse-faced skirt, recited "Night in Casablanca" by Chinese poet Bao Bei in Chinese and Arabic, which aroused enthusiastic responses from the audience.