UNESCO. General Conference; 30th; Records ... - unesdoc - Unesco

(22.1) Mr ALASWAD (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (Translation from the Arabic):
Madam President, Mr Representative of the Director-General, Mr Chairperson of the Executive Board,
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honour for me, Madam President, to congratulate you, on
behalf of my country, on your election as President of this Conference. I wish you all success in your important
task. I should also like to take advantage of this opportunity to offer my greetings to Mr Federico Mayor and
express my great esteem for his efforts to develop and enhance the functioning of this Organization, despite the
difficult circumstances confronting it. He sought to consolidate the ethical gains which UNESCO has consistently
advocated, including the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome, the culture of peace programme, the ethics
of information and the revision of the International Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event
of Armed Conflict, besides a number of successful programmes (which I mention by way of example only, this list
is not exhaustive), including the Priority Africa programme, the programmes relating to the issues of women and
young people, the programmes relating to the strengthening of human rights and those that have been implemented
in the field of culture and the world heritage. Other major accomplishments have been the revision of the General
History of Africa and the writing of the History of Humanity.
(22.2) It also gives me great pleasure to speak of the constructive, fruitful cooperation between my country and
the Organization in the course of recent years. That cooperation, which has amounted to over $100 million,
illustrates the importance my country attaches to UNESCO and its effective role in the fields of education, science
and culture, as well as its efforts to bring about peace, combat poverty, and raise the standards of living of the
people of its Member States. As a further illustration of our view of the importance of this Organization, the
Jamahiriya has recently signed a number of other agreements for the development of education programmes in the
Jamahiriya itself and elsewhere in Africa, for a value of approximately $220 million.
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