Tetouan – HM King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), , may God Assist Him, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and HRH Prince Moulay Rachid, chaired, Wednesday afternoon at the Mechouar Square in the Royal Palace of Tetouan, on the occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sovereign’s accession to the Throne of His glorious Ancestors, the oath-taking ceremony of officers who graduated from the major military and paramilitary institutes and schools, as well as officers from the ranks.
His Majesty the King has kindly named this graduating class after the late “Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Latifa”.
After saluting the national flag as the national anthem was playing, the Sovereign delivered the following address:
“Praise be to God,
May peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, His Kith and Kin
Honorable Officers,
It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation from our military, security and terri
torial institutions.
I am pleased to preside over this oath-taking ceremony, in my capacity as the Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces.
I have decided to name your Group of Graduates after my late mother, Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Latifa – may she rest in peace – in order to show my esteem and appreciation for Moroccan women, and to recognize the role they play in raising generations in keeping with good morals and with our authentic spiritual and national values.
Given the modern, high-level training you have received, I am, indeed, confident that you will fulfil your national duty with the competence, proficiency, patriotism and commitment to the nation’s immutable values that are characteristic of our Royal Armed Forces.
I therefore want you to live up to my expectations in terms of integrity, discipline and loyalty to your everlasting motto: God, the Homeland, the King’.
After the oath-taking ceremony, HM the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of the Gene
ral Staff of the Royal Armed Forces, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and HRH Prince Moulay Rachid, saluted the flags of the Royal Armed Forces, before reviewing the various detachments of graduating officers.
This year’s oath-taking ceremony includes the graduates of the 2024 graduating classes of the Active Officers’ Schools and Paramilitary Establishments as well as the Officers from the ranks appointed in 2023 and the remainders of previous graduating classes.
The graduates who took the oath come from the following major military schools:
– Royal Military Academy;
– Royal Air School;
– Royal Naval School;
– Royal School of Military Health Service.
In addition to these graduates from active officer training schools, there are also reserve officers from the major paramilitary schools, namely:
– The Mohammedia School of Engineers
– The Royal Institute of Territorial Administration
– The Royal Institute of Police
– The National School of Forest Engineers
– The Customs Training Scho
ol
– The National School of Civil Protection.
There are also the graduates from the Special Cycle, from the ranks and remnants of previous graduating classes, from the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie and the Auxiliary Forces.
On this occasion, His Majesty the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the FAR, awarded stripes to newly promoted officers for the year 2024.
His Majesty the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces, had previously received, on July 29, at the Royal Palace in Tetouan, the Advancement Commission of Royal Armed Forces Personnel.
The Advancement Commission, chaired by Lieutenant General, Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces and Commander of the South Zone, submitted to the High Royal Appreciation the conclusions and results of the promotion process for officer and non-officer personnel of the Royal Armed Forces.
The Commission expressed to His Majesty the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staf
f of the FAR, on behalf of the Royal Armed Forces, the deep gratitude and pride of the members of the Commission for the marks of Solicitude and the High Royal Directions and Instructions, which inspired and led the work of the Commission, during all its phases.
The conclusions of the Commission and the progress table received the High approval of HM the King who gave His High Instructions so that His Congratulations be transmitted to the newly promoted, encouraging all the personnel of FAR to persevere in fulfilling the noble mission assigned to them, faithful in this to the sacred motto: “God – The Homeland – The King”.
The oath-taking took place in the presence of the Head of Government, the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament, Advisors to HM the King, members of the government, senior officers of the FAR General Staff, foreign military attachés accredited in Rabat, and other civilian and military personalities.
Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse