Speaking at Dar Souiri where he came to welcome Carlos Eduardo Niemeyer, grandson of the great Brazilian architect, Azoulay highlighted "the exceptional personality of Oscar Niemeyer, whose work occupies a major place in the universal history of modern architecture and whose philosophical and moral commitment throughout his life, has made him the undisputed icon of those who have had the talent to not dissociate their art and their performance of their social responsibility, ethics and citizenship".

"It was first around these values and thanks to the interpersonal skills of my friend Fred Meyer, Ambassador of Brazil to Morocco in 2012, that I began an epistolary relationship with the great Oscar Niemeyer, who very quickly and spontaneously adhered to the philosophical and cultural society project with which Essaouira chose to identify its rebirth, this adhesion quickly translated into the drawing, the conception and the articulation, all signed by Niemeyer, of what will be tomorrow the future City of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Essaouira", said the Advisor to HM the King, pointing out that the great Brazilian architect refused to be paid and donated his work to Essaouira.

"It is a gesture and a generosity that gives even more relief and depth to this masterful work that was the last one signed by Oscar Niemeyer before his death on December 5, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 104," Azoulay added, renewing to the Niemeyer family and his team "the immense gratitude of Morocco from Essaouira, now included in the exciting list of sites that will bear the mark and signature of Oscar Niemeyer and I have no doubt that people will also come to Essaouira to see the last work designed and conceived by the great architect before his death," said Azoulay.