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In 1960, Morocco’s Crown Prince Hassan urged UN to welcome China

By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan 1 min read

Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.

In 1960, Morocco’s Crown Prince Hassan urged UN to welcome China

“Is it fair and just that 600 million people, a third of the world’s population, are simply not among us?”

In 1960, then Crown Prince of Morocco, who later became King Hassan II, stood before the United Nations and made this exact challenge. 

He called on member states to admit the People’s Republic of China, saying that including 600 million more people would boost global cooperation more than excluding them ever could.

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250514/6cbd787acce0438dace335ac58933b10/c.html

Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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