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UNESCO outgoing chief to pay two-day visit to Moscow
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MOSCOW, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - The UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
Matsuura will arrive for a two-day visit in Moscow on Monday.
A Kremlin administration source told Itar-Tass that Mr. Matsuura and
members of the high-level Group for inter-religious dialogue would meet
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on July 21, Tuesday.
"Russia is a country with a unique experience of peaceful co-existence
of various nationalities and confessions that attaches great importance to
a dialogue among cultures and civilizations in a broad global context and
searches for consensus in relations between representatives of various
cultural and spiritual traditions", the Kremlin source emphasized.
The UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura will be present at the
first meeting of the high-level group headed by Patriarch of Moscow and
All Russia Kirill to be held in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow on July
22. Other participants include Sheik-Ul-Islam Allakshukur Pashazade, the
Grand Mufti of the Caucasus (Azerbaijan), Muhammad Hayat, the Muslim World
League (MWL), Yona Metzger, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Martin
Schindehutte, Bishop for relations with foreign countries and other
Christian confessions of the German Evangelical Church, Archbishop Antonio
Menini, the Vatican's representative in Russia.
The unique format of the high-level Group will make it possible, in a
perspective, to create an effective mechanism for consultations between
the United Nations and traditional religious associations.
"This will, to a large extent, contribute to the solution of many
vital tasks such as the settlement of inter-religious conflicts, the
prevention of religious defamation and the preservation of religious holy
sites during armed conflicts," the Kremlin administration source went on
to say.
The agenda of Medvedev's meeting with Koichiro Matsuura and members
of the high-level Group include all the key questions of Russia's
cooperation with the UNESCO.
Matsuura whose term of the UNESCO director-general expires in November
2009 has made a great contribution to the Organization's development and
the strengthening of its ties with Russia, the Kremlin source said.
He is known as a prominent diplomat who contributes to the promotion
of a cultural dialogue in the world arena and the author of books on
international relations.
Matsuura has been heading the UNESCO for the past ten years. Under his
leadership the organization started a large-scale reform and set out new
goals in the sphere of science and education.
On July 21, Koichiro Matsuura will present his book titled 'Changing
World: New Challenges' at the Itar-Tass news agency.
UNESCO is one of the largest international organizations. At present,
it has 193 member-countries and six associated countries. Its programs are
designed to spread knowledge and education, make social and medical
services available to people and fight poverty.
.Motor rally starts for the Pamir from Moscow and Barnaul.
BARNAUL, the Altai territory, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - Members of the
'Silk Route -Road Without Boundaries' land rover rally will on Monday
leave for the Pamir Mountains in two groups and from two destinations:
Barnaul, the Altai territory, and Moscow.
The 20,000-kilometer route of the four car crews will run across
Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The teams are
to return to Barnaul and Moscow on August 20.
"We want to cover the Central Asian part of the Great Silk Route. A
team from Barnaul will go to Tajikistan via Kazakhstan, while our Moscow
partners will move via the Aral and Caspian Seas. The two groups will meet
in Samarkand," said Vladimir Sedykh, the expedition's deputy head.
The most difficult part of the route lies via the Pamir. The travelers
want to reach the foot of the Peaks Communism and Lenin. Apart from sport
interest the expedition members are pursuing a scientific goal: they want
to study the highland Sarezskoye Lake (Gorny Badakhshan). The local
authorities have closed the lake for ordinary visitors for fear that the
local dam may burst and a powerful water flow may flood the adjacent
territories.
The Russian travelers will support a risk reduction project, which the
governments of the four countries concerned - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - launched in 2000.
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MOSCOW, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - The UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
Matsuura will arrive for a two-day visit in Moscow on Monday.
A Kremlin administration source told Itar-Tass that Mr. Matsuura and
members of the high-level Group for inter-religious dialogue would meet
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on July 21, Tuesday.
"Russia is a country with a unique experience of peaceful co-existence
of various nationalities and confessions that attaches great importance to
a dialogue among cultures and civilizations in a broad global context and
searches for consensus in relations between representatives of various
cultural and spiritual traditions", the Kremlin source emphasized.
The UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura will be present at the
first meeting of the high-level group headed by Patriarch of Moscow and
All Russia Kirill to be held in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow on July
22. Other participants include Sheik-Ul-Islam Allakshukur Pashazade, the
Grand Mufti of the Caucasus (Azerbaijan), Muhammad Hayat, the Muslim World
League (MWL), Yona Metzger, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Martin
Schindehutte, Bishop for relations with foreign countries and other
Christian confessions of the German Evangelical Church, Archbishop Antonio
Menini, the Vatican's representative in Russia.
The unique format of the high-level Group will make it possible, in a
perspective, to create an effective mechanism for consultations between
the United Nations and traditional religious associations.
"This will, to a large extent, contribute to the solution of many
vital tasks such as the settlement of inter-religious conflicts, the
prevention of religious defamation and the preservation of religious holy
sites during armed conflicts," the Kremlin administration source went on
to say.
The agenda of Medvedev's meeting with Koichiro Matsuura and members
of the high-level Group include all the key questions of Russia's
cooperation with the UNESCO.
Matsuura whose term of the UNESCO director-general expires in November
2009 has made a great contribution to the Organization's development and
the strengthening of its ties with Russia, the Kremlin source said.
He is known as a prominent diplomat who contributes to the promotion
of a cultural dialogue in the world arena and the author of books on
international relations.
Matsuura has been heading the UNESCO for the past ten years. Under his
leadership the organization started a large-scale reform and set out new
goals in the sphere of science and education.
On July 21, Koichiro Matsuura will present his book titled 'Changing
World: New Challenges' at the Itar-Tass news agency.
UNESCO is one of the largest international organizations. At present,
it has 193 member-countries and six associated countries. Its programs are
designed to spread knowledge and education, make social and medical
services available to people and fight poverty.
.Motor rally starts for the Pamir from Moscow and Barnaul.
BARNAUL, the Altai territory, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - Members of the
'Silk Route -Road Without Boundaries' land rover rally will on Monday
leave for the Pamir Mountains in two groups and from two destinations:
Barnaul, the Altai territory, and Moscow.
The 20,000-kilometer route of the four car crews will run across
Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The teams are
to return to Barnaul and Moscow on August 20.
"We want to cover the Central Asian part of the Great Silk Route. A
team from Barnaul will go to Tajikistan via Kazakhstan, while our Moscow
partners will move via the Aral and Caspian Seas. The two groups will meet
in Samarkand," said Vladimir Sedykh, the expedition's deputy head.
The most difficult part of the route lies via the Pamir. The travelers
want to reach the foot of the Peaks Communism and Lenin. Apart from sport
interest the expedition members are pursuing a scientific goal: they want
to study the highland Sarezskoye Lake (Gorny Badakhshan). The local
authorities have closed the lake for ordinary visitors for fear that the
local dam may burst and a powerful water flow may flood the adjacent
territories.
The Russian travelers will support a risk reduction project, which the
governments of the four countries concerned - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - launched in 2000.
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