UNESCO General Conference

Bangladesh elected VP

Nurul Islam Nahid MP, the Education Minister and the head of the Bangladesh delegation to the UNESCO General Conference, has been elected as the Vice President of the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference at its headquarters in Paris, reports UNB.
He is leading the Bangladesh delegation in the ongoing General Conference which is taking place from 3-18 November.
The conference is being attended by the Ministers and senior officials of 195 member states, 8 associate members and various UN agencies, media and NGO’s. Bangladesh will serve as the Vice President of the UNESCO General Conference for 2015-2017.
Bangladesh Education Minister also addressed the 38th Session of the ongoing UNESCO General Conference as the head of the Bangladesh delegation.
In his speech Nurul Islam Nahid urged the organisation and the leaders across the world to adopt a comprehensive approach to education that ensures inclusive, equitable and quality education at all levels.
Referring to the success of the Education for All (EFA), Education for International Understanding (EIU) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiated by UNESCO, Nahid told that Education is not just a stand-alone goal in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), it is also a cross-cutting theme that will underpin many other SDGs and targets like achieving gender equality and empowerment of women, job creation for our youths, produce global citizens that contributes to world peace and fight extremism, and build resilient societies against climate change and natural calamities.
The failure to addressing those issues properly will certainly hamper achieving SDGs in stipulated time.
Considering the fact, he also persuaded the world communities to address all these issues in a strict sense by reaching a consensus to tackle climate change impact in the United Nation’s Conference on Climate Change (COP 21) which is going to take place in Paris at the end of this month.
The members of the delegation among others included H E Shahidul Islam, Ambassador and Permanent Delegation of Bangladesh to UNESCO, Monjur Hossain, Secretary of the Bangladesh National Commission for UNESCO (BNCU).

 

UNESCO General Conference

Bangladesh elected VP

Nurul Islam Nahid MP, the Education Minister and the head of the Bangladesh delegation to the UNESCO General Conference, has been elected as the Vice President of the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference at its headquarters in Paris, reports UNB. He is leading the Bangladesh delegation in the ongoing General Conference which is taking place from 3-18 November. The conference is being attended by the Ministers and senior officials of 195 member states, 8 associate members and various UN agencies, media and NGOs. Bangladesh will serve as the Vice President of the UNESCO General Conference for 2015-2017. Bangladesh Education Minister also addressed the 38th Session of the ongoing UNESCO General Conference as the head of the Bangladesh delegation. In his speech Nurul Islam Nahid urged the organisation and the leaders across the world to adopt a comprehensive approach to education that ensures inclusive, equitable and quality education at all levels. Referring to the success of the Education for All (EFA), Education for International Understanding (EIU) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiated by UNESCO, Nahid told that Education is not just a stand-alone goal in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), it is also a cross-cutting theme that will underpin many other SDGs and targets like achieving gender equality and empowerment of women, job creation for our youths, produce global citizens that contributes to world peace and fight extremism, and build resilient societies against climate change and natural calamities. The failure to addressing those issues properly will certainly hamper achieving SDGs in stipulated time. Considering the fact, he also persuaded the world communities to address all these issues in a strict sense by reaching a consensus to tackle climate change impact in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 21) which is going to take place in Paris at the end of this month. The members of the delegation among others included H E Shahidul Islam, Ambassador and Permanent Delegation of Bangladesh to UNESCO, Monjur Hossain, Secretary of the Bangladesh National Commission for UNESCO (BNCU).