ALECSO Warns of Risks Threaten Arabic Language

_{Marks the first day of the month of March of each year as the Arab Day to celebrate the Arabic language, which was based on the decision of the Executive Council of the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science, (ALECSO) in 2009.}

_{On this occasion ALECSO confirms the importance of working to enhance the status of Arabic in various spheres of life in education, media and advertising by various means, since that Arabic is the nation’s identity and the address of its unity, also it renews its warning of risks that threaten the Arabic language, especially the continuation to rely on foreign languages to teach in the majority of Arab universities and even beyond that to the stages of public education in some Arab countries, as well as crowding out the use of local dialects in television, radio programs and advertising.}

_{ALECSO calls on all those concerned in the educational, cultural and media for working to upgrade the status of the Arabic language through its use in education, media and advertising in various media daily dealing. It also calls media education and institutions and bodies concerned to celebrate this day through cultural events and programs that focus on the importance of the Arabic language as a symbol of identity and the base of the Arab and Islamic nation unity.}

_{ALECSO has renewed its call to all Arab countries to elevate the file of Arabic language to the forefront of its concerns as fortified fort for unity. It also asserts that in cooperation with the concerned ministries and agencies in the Arab countries and Arabic language academies will work to support teaching the Arabic language and its use in various media and advertising and publishing in implementation to the decision of the Damascus summit in March 2008 to revive Arabic.}

_{ALECSO also hopes and calls for Arab states to provide financial and technical support to Somalia, Djibouti and the Comoros to develop teaching the Arabic language in these countries, and calls for enhancing the movement of localization, translation, and improving the standard of teaching Arabic language and teaching of their literature in all levels of education , and using Arabic extensively in the areas of modern communications.}

_{Sh. Kh.}