First lady of Azerbaijan meets with the UNESCO General Director in Paris - PHOTOS

First Lady of Azerbaijan, president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO, MP Mehriban Aliyeva has yesterday met in UNESCO headquarters in Paris the newly elected General Director of the organization Irina Bokova.

At the meeting, Mehriban Aliyeva congratulated Irina Bokova on election on the post of the UNESCO General Director and has wished her successes in activity.

UNESCO General Director expressed satisfaction with close cooperation of UNESCO with Azerbaijan. Having appreciated activity of Mehriban Aliyeva as the Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, Irina Bokova underlined her interest in further cooperation with the First Lady of Azerbaijan.

The General Director expressed confidence that thanks to efforts of Mehriban Aliyeva links of Azerbaijan with UNESCO will have further development.

Having informed that the number of projects in the sphere of education has been recently prepared, the UNESCO General Director expressed her wish that Mehriban Aliyeva participated in them. Mrs. Irina Bokova pointed out that UNESCO gives great attention to development of the system of secondary education and is going to carry out a number of actions. The main goal of projects, according to Bokova, is to achieve that girls all over the world, in particular, in the African countries, received secondary education. According to her, the UNESCO headquarters is planning to carry out certain actions linked to the mentioned projects. Having wished, that in this action has taken part Mehriban Aliyeva whom belong big merits in implementation of many important projects in the education sphere in Azerbaijan, Irina Bokova expressed hope that the First Lady of Azerbaijan will support the said initiative.

Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva accepted the offer, noting she will certainly support these projects.

Especially having marked the value of the international actions on intercultural and inter-civilization dialogue carried out in Azerbaijan at the initiative of the president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva, the UNESCO General Director thanked the Goodwill Ambassador and wished continuation of such initiatives.

Irina Bokova underlined again that between UNESCO and Azerbaijan there are close connections, marking activity in this area of President Ilham Aliyev. The General Director of UNESCO told that Azerbaijan is one of the promptly developing countries in the world.

Noting that Azerbaijan and UNESCO have established close connections, Mehriban Aliyeva said that Azerbaijan stands ready to participate actively further in all actions of UNESCO in any area, in particular, in the sphere of education and culture.

Mehriban Aliyeva invited the General Director of UNESCO to visit Azerbaijan. Irina Bokova accepted the invitation, stating she will visit Azerbaijan in the near future.


/AzerTac/

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