UNESCO Demands Impact Study on Morocco’s Mohammed VI Tower Extension Project

It is through a correspondence addressed to the Moroccan government that Unesco expressed its feelings. It regrets that Morocco did not provide it in advance with details on the extension projects of the Mohammed VI Tower and the Rabat-Ville train station, reports the Spanish press agency EFE.

As a result, the UN organization has given a deadline (February 2020) to the executive to conduct an "impact study" on the projects. The focus should be on visual and landscape impacts.

Inscribed in 2012 on the Unesco World Heritage List, Rabat must inform the UN organization in advance of the projects to be implemented. This principle has been violated, hence Unesco’s irritation. The Moroccan government has indeed not sent it any correspondence, indicates the same source.

As for the Mohammed VI Tower extension project, Unesco opposes it due to the "potentially negative visual impact" it could have on the Bouregreg Valley. It is a tower whose height will be 250 meters, and which will have 45 floors.