[30.10.2000]
- PRESIDENT
VLADIMIR PUTIN VISITS UNESCO Russian Federation President Vladimir
Putin met UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at Organization
Headquarters which he visited today accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Igor
Ivanov and Culture Minister Mikhail Chvydkoi. Continue
[30.10.2000]
- CULTURAL VISIT TO TUNISIA BY EXECUTIVE BOARD The Executive Board, chaired by Sonia Mendieta de Badaroux (Honduras),
carried out a cultural visit to Tunisia from October 26 to 29, with stops in
Carthage, the Medina of Tunis and Kairouan, sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World
Heritage List. Continue
[26.10.2000]
- EXECUTIVE BOARD MAPS FUTURE PRIORITIES AND ACTIVITIES OF UNESCO UNESCO’s Executive Board, chaired by Sonia Mendieta de Badaroux
(Honduras), ended its 160th session yesterday, Wednesday, broadly endorsing
Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura’s proposals to reform the Organization and
refocus its programmes, presented in his draft Medium Term Strategy for
2002-2007 and draft Programme and Budget for 2002-2003. Continue
[24.10.2000]
- SAMUEL RUIZ GARCIA AND
JULIO SANGUINETTI RECEIVETHE 2000 INTERNATIONAL SIMON BOLIVAR
PRIZE
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura
presented the 2000 International Simón Bolívar Prize to Samuel Ruiz García,
the former Bishop of Chiapas (Mexico), and Julio María Sanguinetti, the former
President of Uruguay, in a ceremony at Organization Headquarters yesterday
evening. Continue
[24.10.2000]
- OAU SECRETARY GENERAL UNDERLINES CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION FOR AFRICA The Secretary General of the Organization
of African Unity (OAU), Salim Ahmed Salim, emphasised the crucial importance of
education in meeting the many challenges facing the African continent in an
address to the 160th session of UNESCO’s Executive Board at Organization
Headquarters this morning. Continue
[19.10.2000] - CATHERINE
DENEUVE PRESENTS SPECIAL CINEMA PRIZE FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE TO CHINESE
DIRECTOR ZHANG YUAN UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Catherine Deneuve presented the Special
Cinema Prize for the Culture of Peace to young Chinese director Zhang Yuan for
his film Seventeen Years, Wednesday,
October 18. Created by UNESCO for the year 2000, International Year for the
Culture of Peace, and organised in partnership with Radio France, the Prize
consists of a work by Tajik sculptor Amri. Continue
[16.10.2000]
- INTERNATIONAL
BIOETHICS COMMITTEE TO MEET IN QUITO, NOVEMBER 7 - 9 UNESCO’s International Bioethics
Committee (IBC) will hold its seventh session from November 7 to 9 in Quito
(Ecuador) to reflect on the ethical and legal issues raised by research in the
life sciences and their application. Continue
[11.10.2000] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL OUTLINES HIS VISION OF UNESCO'S FUTURE BEFORE THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD UNESCO must be "the world forum where the
international community can help give a meaning and a conscience to the globalisation processes", UNESCO Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura declared as he outlined his vision of the Organization's strategies and programmes for the coming years to the Executive Board. Continue
[09.10.2000] - OPENING OF 160TH SESSION OF UNESCO'S EXECUTIVE BOARD UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura
today condemned the gratuitous violence currently hitting the Middle East and the destruction of sacred monuments and places of worship there. He appealed for moderation and reason as he addressed the 160th session of the Organization's Executive Board which was opened this morning by its Chairperson, Sonia Mendieta de Badaroux (Honduras). Continue
[05.10.2000] - SPECIAL CINEMA PRIZE FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE AWARD-GIVING CEREMONY, OCTOBER 18 The Special Cinema Prize for the Culture of
Peace will be awarded on October 18 (6.30 p.m., Room I) by French
actress and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Catherine Deneuve to Chinese director Zhang Yuan for his film Seventeen Years in a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the film in its original Chinese-language version with subtitles in French. This will be the first French preview of the film which won the Best Director Award at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. Continue
[05.10.2000] - 160TH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OPENS MONDAY UNESCO The 160th session of UNESCO's Executive Board, chaired by Sonia Mendieta de Badaroux (Honduras), will open Monday at Organization Headquarters. The Board, whose session ends October 25, will examine Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura's preliminary proposals concerning the Organization's draft Medium Term
Strategy for 2002-2007 and the draft Programme and Budget for 2002-2003 which reflects the first phase of the Strategy. Continue
[02.10.2000] - JOINT MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD TEACHERS' DAY On the occasion of World Teachers' Day,
celepated October 5, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura;
International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavía;
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch
pown; and UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy launched a joint
message entitled World Teachers' Day 2000: Expanding Horizons.
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