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Minister of Education addresses the 31st Session of the UNESCO General Conference
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18/10/2001
18/10/2001
| This afternoon, the Minister of Education Dr. Louis Galea addressed the | 31st session of the UNESCO General Conference, which is currently meeting at the UNESCO General Headquarters in Paris. |
| The United Nation’s Educational Scientific and | Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) meets biannually to approve the programme and budget for the following two years. This year apart from the approval of the Programme and Budget for the years 2002-2003, the General conference will be discussing and adopting a medium-term strategy for the years 2002-2007 on where it will focus most of its resources. |
| The medium-term strategy is adopted every six years, | and this year will be tackling, ‘The UNESCO contribution to peace and human development in an era of globalisation through education, the sciences, culture and communications’. The two main themes will be the eradication of poverty with a particular emphasis on extreme poverty; and the contribution of information and communication technology to the development of education, the sciences and culture and the construction of a knowledge society. |
| The Maltese delegation at this conference is made up | of Education Minister Dr. Louis Galea, Malta’s Permanent Delegate to UNESCO H.E. Dr. Joseph Licari and Ambassador Ms. Maria Cilia. The Minister will be meeting the Director General H.E. Koichiro Matsuura tomorrow morning. |
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