ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION WITH UNESCO
ARKA
March 19, 2008
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian,
UN Resident Representative in Armenia Consuelo Vidal and the Director
of Moscow Office of UNESCO Dendeev Badarc are to sign a document on
cooperation of Armenian Government with UNESCO in Yerevan on May 20.
The document will open up new prospects for more well-ordered
activities of UNESCO in Armenia in the fields of education, science,
culture and telecommunications, the Press Service of Armenian Foreign
Ministry reported.
The document is an addition to the system of support to UNO development
in Armenia (2005-2008) aimed at setting up a joint system for all
UNO agencies in the country.
Under the document, UNESCO activities are to focus on the programs
"Education for Everyone", "UNO Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development", as well as on the results of World Summit international
development objectives, including millennium development objectives
within UNESCO mandate.