[Wigsat-l] NEW UNESCO CHIEF PLEDGES TO PROMOTE ‘KNOWLEDGE, TOLERANCE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY’

[Sophia Huyer]

NEW UNESCO CHIEF PLEDGES TO PROMOTE ‘KNOWLEDGE, TOLERANCE AND EQUAL  
OPPORTUNITY’
New York, Oct 15 2009  7:05PM
The new head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and  
Cultural Agency (<"http://www.unesco.org/en/general-conference-35session/single-view-news/news/irina_bokova_elected_director_general_of_unesco/back/19129/ 
">UNESCO) pledged today to work closely with Member States to promote  
societies “based on knowledge, tolerance and equal opportunity for  
all” after she was formally approved as Director-General.

The 193-member General Conference of UNESCO, meeting in Paris, elected  
Irina Bokova as head of the agency, nearly a month after she was  
chosen in the fifth round of voting by the Executive Board.

A former foreign minister of Bulgaria, Ms. Bokova will start work in  
her new role on 15 November, succeeding Koïchiro Matsuura, who is  
ending his second term as Director-General and is not eligible for  
another stint.

“I shall be guided in my work by my concept of a new humanism for the  
21st century,” Ms. Bokova said today after she was elected.

“It is my dream to nurture relations of perfect synergy between the  
Director-General and Member States, so as to move together towards the  
creation of societies that are more just and prosperous, based on  
knowledge, tolerance and equal opportunity for all, thanks to  
education, science, culture and access to information.”
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