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et plus particulièrement l'expérience valencienne de l'utilisation de ressources en eau peu abondantes, au service de<br />

l'<strong>UNESCO</strong> et de ses pays membres. L'Espagne est convaincue que la diversité culturelle est une richesse et un<br />

facteur de développement et c'est ce qu'elle a voulu mettre en évidence en convoquant le "Forum universel des<br />

cultures - Barcelone 2004", dont l'<strong>UNESCO</strong> est le principal partenaire conformément à une décision prise par la<br />

Conférence générale à sa 29e session. Il convient de souligner l'impulsion efficace que, rénovée, la Commission<br />

espagnole pour l'<strong>UNESCO</strong> a su donner.<br />

(18.15) Mais ce n'est pas seulement dans ces très nombreux programmes de coopération avec l'<strong>UNESCO</strong> qu'il<br />

faut chercher l'engagement indéfectible de l'Espagne envers l'Organisation, mais aussi dans la défense des valeurs<br />

morales, l'éducation au service de la paix et la défense des cultures dans leur multiplicité et leur intégration, qui<br />

sont pour nous autant de facteurs de développement et de compréhension entre tous les êtres humains.<br />

(18.16) Permettez-moi de conclure, Madame la Présidente, en rendant hommage dans cette Maison de la culture,<br />

qui va instaurer la Journée mondiale de la poésie, au grand poète espagnol Rafael Alberti qui pour la dernière fois,<br />

hier soir, a fermé les yeux dans sa terre gaditane à cette lumière qu'il a tant aimée et recherchée encore en<br />

Amérique, à Rome et tout particulièrement dans cette escale de La Havane, qui lui permettait de se souvenir de son<br />

port natal de Santa María et de Cadix tout entière. C'est à lui qu'aux côtés de Lorca, d'Aleixandre et de Cernuda,<br />

nous devons notre entrée dans un des mondes les plus envoûtants de la littérature, celui des avant-gardes et du<br />

surréalisme, celui des anges qui circulent dans les canalisations, qui rapprochent les hommes de la vie et de la<br />

mort ; notre poète de la rue, qui a dressé un constat émouvant de nos cheminements depuis les terres d'Espagne, de<br />

l'intérieur vers l'extérieur, et puis de nos retours. Rafael Alberti, qui ose dire que tu es mort ? Tes mots nous restent<br />

à jamais. L'homme qui voulut être marin de terre est, depuis hier soir, marin de l'éternité. Merci beaucoup.<br />

19. The PRESIDENT:<br />

Madam, your country has truly much to be proud of, and I thank you very much for your excellent<br />

intervention. May I now ask His Excellency Mr Arnaldo Valente Nhavote, Minister for Education of<br />

Mozambique, to take the floor please. Your Excellency. Thank you.<br />

20.1 Mr NHAVOTO (Mozambique): (Statement delivered in Portuguese; text in English provided by the<br />

delegation)<br />

Madam President of the <strong>30th</strong> session of the <strong>General</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> of <strong>UNESCO</strong>, Mr Director-<strong>General</strong> of<br />

<strong>UNESCO</strong>, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by congratulating Your Excellency<br />

on being elected to the Presidency of this <strong>General</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>. Allow me also to greet the Executive Board of<br />

<strong>UNESCO</strong> with all my warmth, in particular its Chairperson, not only for the results achieved during this past<br />

biennium, but also and mainly for its tenacity in accomplishing the commitments undertaken at the last<br />

<strong>Conference</strong> and for the work done since our last <strong>General</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>. I would like also to say that my country is<br />

greatly indebted to the Director-<strong>General</strong>, Mr Federico Mayor, for his inexhaustible initiative and spirit of<br />

creativity in conceiving programmes that have permitted the Member States, in particular the developing<br />

countries, to participate effectively and actively in the life of the Organization. More than simple words of<br />

appreciation, our desire and our determination to continue to rejuvenate <strong>UNESCO</strong> will constitute the best<br />

expression of our gratitude and the best tribute to the work performed by Professor Federico Mayor.<br />

20.2 Madam President, this <strong>Conference</strong> is taking place in a period of rapid and profound social, political and<br />

economic changes, in which humanity is facing new problems and challenges that need great dynamism and<br />

dedication on our part and, above all, the systematic intervention of international organizations, in particular our<br />

Organization. Thus we welcome the initiatives aimed at hastening changes in the functioning of <strong>UNESCO</strong>. We<br />

would like to highlight and support the idea of transforming the Internal Statistics Division into a <strong>UNESCO</strong><br />

Institute of Statistics. Mozambique supports this initiative and hopes it will permit more autonomy and more<br />

efficiency in the processing and analysing of data and a significant improvement of the quality of the statistical<br />

information provided by <strong>UNESCO</strong>.<br />

20.3 The present international situation, characterized by the proliferation of conflicts in various regions and<br />

countries across the world, underlines the importance, relevance and pertinence of the United Nations system in<br />

general and of <strong>UNESCO</strong> in particular. All through the last year, the world has been faced with conflicts and<br />

human tragedies in Somalia, Uganda and Rwanda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone, in<br />

Sudan, Eritrea and Angola, amongst many others. Worse still, we have recently witnessed with great anxiety the<br />

ugly images of terror and cruelty in Kosovo and East Timor, where even the most elementary human rights and<br />

values were evaded, sowing death, sorrow, terror before the passivity, hesitation and double standards of the<br />

international community. The prevalence of these conflicts, and their calamitous and horrifying consequences,<br />

suggest that the hard work of building and maintaining peace and stability in various parts of the world must<br />

continue. This situation makes it urgent for us to find lasting solutions for transforming the world into a place<br />

where we can all live together.<br />

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