PM Meets The Director-General Of UNESCO

Baghdad / NINA / - Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Sudani met today, Monday, with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, and her accompanying delegation.

 Al-Sudani appreciated the organization's efforts and initiatives in Iraq, complementing what was discussed with it during his recent visit to Paris.

 The Prime Minister expressed Iraq's aspiration to enhance the international organization's support for its efforts in the field of recovering stolen Iraqi antiquities, stressing his high appreciation of the organization's efforts to include many Iraqi tangible and natural heritage files in the World Heritage List.

 He revealed that Iraq is seeking more cooperation with UNESCO in various files, including: The file of the displaced and their camps, assistance in rehabilitating them and providing them with educational opportunities, maintenance of archaeological sites that were vandalized by ISIS gangs, building human capacities, developing school curricula, and many other files of cooperation.

 For her part, Azoulay affirmed the international organization's openness to all forms of cultural, scientific and heritage cooperation with Iraq, noting the desire to provide support in the matter of updating curricula and making them parallel to international standards.

 She also described cooperation with Iraq as continuous, and that her visit comes in order to set priorities and develop plans to develop joint action.

 She revealed the organization's readiness to send a specialized team to support Iraq in the field of water management within the international hydrological program concerned with water affairs./ End