On November 3rd, 2015 in Paris was opened the thirty-eighth session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The session is jubilee, since on November 16th UNESCO celebrates 70 years of its establishment.
The top priority on the agenda of the Organization is to achieve sustainable development by 2030 through education, science, culture and communication. Within the session will be held Leadership Forum, on which will be celebrated the 70th anniversary of UNESCO. The President of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Rosen Plevneliev will take part in it.
In his speech at the official opening of the 38th session of the General Conference Ambassador Mohammed Amr, Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO and Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to UNESCO, he stressed that “the secret to our success will not only lie in multiplying our energies or increasing our financial resources, but also in the kinds of effective partnerships we can achieve with our fellow organizations within the United Nations system, and our alliances with non-governmental partners, including from the private sector, academic circles the media, and other interested stakeholders”.