(VOVworld) - A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Cong Tac is attending the 38th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General Conference that began in Paris on Tuesday.
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Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Cong Tac led Vietnam delegation to attend the UNESCO's 38th session (Photo: VNA)
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The two-week-long event has drawn representatives from 195 member states, associate members, together with observers, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
They will discuss UNESCO’s orientations for the next two years, and the sustainable development goals approved at the UN Summit in New York in September. UNESCO will also organize celebrations of its 70th founding anniversary.
Vietnam angling for a seat on the UNESCO Executive Board in the 2015-2019 tenure. Deputy Minister Tac is scheduled to deliver a speech at a plenary session on Friday. Mr. Tac said that at that session, Vietnam will seek UNESCO’s recognition of its International Centre of Physics and its International Centre for Research and Postgraduate Training in Mathematics as UNESCO category 2 centres. Vietnam will also introduce the gender equality education programme it is implementing at universities nationwide, propose a worldwide gender equality education network, and submit to the General Conference several documents related to Vietnamese cultural heritage.