 Mesdames et messieurs, bonsoir. Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. It is my delight to be amongst you here and to take part to this panel on the state of the world, an uncertain world, a troublesome world. I do believe that Thierry said it all on this issue in his opening speech of the proceedings of this conference and he would like to see this opportunity to congratulate him as to the success of this 10th edition held here in the city of Marrakech. My reading is going to be that of a Moroccan that belongs to three sectors, three spheres, the Arab-Muslim world, the Euro-Mediterranean sphere and the African sphere as well. And from those three spheres or standpoints, I am proposing a reading of three tendencies, the first of which is related to our world of proximity which knows a crisis which is blocked, which is frozen. The Mediterranean for a long time now has become just a stopover. It has lost its radiance and it has lost its stability. For 10 years now, the situation has worsened. In the north, in Europe, 10 years of crisis, difficult moments increasing unemployment, leveraging in terms of growth, recrudescence of populism and almost a crisis that affects the euro altogether with the emergence of no problems having to do with refugees, asylum seekers, terrorists and all this having adverse effects on what we call the Euro-Mediterranean partnership which makes Europe turn its back to the neighboring countries from the south. In the south, it's even worse. Palestinian issue forgotten for two decades keeps nurturing feelings of hopelessness and despair. During the last 10 years there were useless interventions frustrating Arab Spring civil wars interfaith wars with the uprise of dislocated status compartmentalized Arab world and the occultism of radicalization which has been outsourced to Africa. All this that are dominated by profit making with adverse effect not only economically speaking but also in terms of the cultural society and political models at the same time the absence of regional integration and I am having here in mind our region, that of the macraib all this has contributed to weakening even further our region. However, at the end of this year there are some indicators of hope in the north with the return of growth it's very important for Europe which is also important for us the renewal of the political sphere in France one which is now up to adhere and become inscribed to the logic of reform hope indicators related to the renewal of the European project for Europe to become stronger more coherent more consistent with the speeches of Emmanuel Macron but also with the two interests given by Mrs Merkel to Africa all this is quite important it's even more important to also paye due attention to Separatism and to draw teachings and lessons from the Catalan crisis however populism does have its limits what is certain is that in the aftermath of Brexit after Obama that after the beginning of this engagement it's maybe it's certainly a chance for Europe the failure of Separatism is necessarily linked to political considerations but also considerations that dovetail with the politics of European regionalization in the south there are hope indicators as well and we get started by this glimpse of hope of reconciliation among Palestinians it's also the failure of ISIS we need to all remain and be cautious as to what's happened what will happen afterwards and as cogenty pointed out by the ambassador in Saudi Arabia there is a wake up call so the necessity of making women's rights move forward consecrating in Islam les relations while diversifying the production means and production resources in Saudi Arabia which certainly embark on this with Asia after Ken Sultan of Saudi Arabia's trip to China and Japan there is also the price of movement and the failure of Separatism that we need to take into consideration we need to further rehabilitate our region and make it regain in centrality the second I would like to point out is the far away world that calls upon us we've been talking about Russia its geopolitical return but in Russia it is a hiatus between the qualitative and quantitative weakness of its economic model and its economics at large the world that calls us from far away is that of great Asia namely that of China in 35 years China developing country is becoming the second superpower of the world but what matters most is that the China today is no longer a workshop of global economy its laboratory of green economy of digital economy that comes right after the US in this record and even because it has changed its economy model what matters most is the effect of China's rise for Africa we spoke about the awakening of Africa since 2000 so rate growth that used to amount to 5% since 2014 but this is mainly due to the Chinese demand in terms of hydrocarbons in terms of raw materials and how China has become essentially the workshop of the world what matters most is that by the time China was compelled to become more mature to reduce its growth rate to bring it to 7.8, 7.9 7.5 by the time it has launched the strategy of the road and the belt it has put in place a new strategy with Africa namely in Johannesburg en septembre 2015 with two extension proposals first of which has to do with the transfer of the capital assistance and investment of 60 billion of dollars and second and more important from a quality point of view the possibility of outsourcing a certain number of industries and to adhere with Africa to the logic of the bust of production all this is calling upon us as Africans marocans agrabians, Arabs and Europeans because their response to this fact which is today Chinese tomorrow might become Indian without overlooking no interest given by Japan to Africa all this calls upon us to come up with a collective response throughout the region one which informs the renewal of the European approach for both the Mediterranean and for Africa involving the integration of some bilateral partnerships such as the French partnership in Africa within a European logic for political considerations but also from an economic point of view as well as strategically speaking it implies as well that the relations between Europe Africa and the Mediterranean adhere to the logic of co-production in terms of training in terms of industrialization in terms of agriculture industrialization having to be global it's also important that with China and with other countries such as India we develop a triangular approach on seminal issues such as the issue of food as pointed out to by Mr. Tarrab the day before yesterday that means that Africa could become a space of competitiveness but also a space of triangular partnership and this is what's gonna give him a study endeavor of bringing about the centrality pass centrality to our region The third tendency pertains to the whole world but is we're keenly interested in it as people who belong to those geographical spaces the world is becoming digital robotized globalized but it is composed of human societies that advocate their cultures, their peculiarities their religions their historical belonging and historical identities because these regions are keen regions where we strike the balance and keep equilibrium within societies we need to then move to the management of cohabitation between modernity and globalization and the depths of the historical cultural specificities societies need to return to those depths to those identities and we need to be quite understanding for us Muslims we have a duty an effort has to be deployed to live our Islam in serenity and whiteness taking into consideration that we need to live it in the 21st century and Islam of tolerance and Islam of openness and cohabitation and peace and that has been our eternal quest to develop in this country thanks to the role played by our kin with the place given to the monarchy the true jihad is not the jihad of the terrorists nor is that of the radicalized the real jihad is an authentic effort that we need to make ourselves a jihad that should bring us to do work of jurisprudence and updating and allowing us to make use of spirituality and put it to the service of modernity this is what should allow us to negotiate our cohabitation in this world with the others with the other cultures with the other civilizations allowing them to also recognize our input there are plenty of indicators as to the world of tomorrow has been necessarily multipolar but not only that on an economic and strategic level but also in terms of the spiritual input multipolarity that recognizes and affirms the great civilizations the western one with all its components taking into consideration its history but also ancient civilizations with their key components and histories the Arab-Muslim civilization with its key components and its histories and of course the African civilization this is what should allow us to rehabilitate our Mediterranean which is the center of the world and allowing the Mediterranean to recover its centrality