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Celebrating 70th anniversary of relationship between our country and the organization.
UNESCO, vital force for peace and promotion of culture in the world.
November 17, 2015As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), we reiterate our support to this international agency and celebrate its historic relationship with Mexico, which is a way of showing its importance in the field of peace through education and culture as vital force to all peoples of the world.
This was expressed by Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) attending the ceremony of the 70th anniversary of UNESCO, held in Chapultepec Castle, where he reminded Jaime Torres Bodet as a great initiator of the relationship with this agency responsible for education, science and culture, which made of Mexico the first country to recognize it in 1945 in Paris.
Nuria Sanz, director of the UNESCO Office in Mexico; Miguel Ángel Mancera, Mayor of Mexico City; Graco Ramirez, governor of Morelos; Otto Granados Roldán, Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation and Educational Policies (SEP) and Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), attended the event, where they referred to the attacks in Paris.
Tovar y de Teresa explained that in the first Charter of UNESCO, Mexico decisively participated in the validation of that different scheme based on specialized programs for education, science and culture, and hosted in 1947, in our country, the second Conference of the UNESCO with the participation of 37 countries.
The head of Conaculta declared that there have been many moments of deep cooperation between Mexico and UNESCO, as in 1982, when both proposed at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tlatelolco, the World Decade for Cultural Development 1988-1997 or the inscription of 41 sites as World Heritage, which puts Mexico in sixth place in the world and first in Latin America.
On her behalf, Nuria Sanz said that the relationship with Mexico has been productive over seven decades in intercultural dialogue and put emphasis on factors such as education, science and culture, fundamental elements for cooperation in the international framework.
From the beginning, she said, Mexico defended the axes of multiculturalism and respect for all cultures from a pacifist view being the first country in the world to have its embassy in Paris, a recognition for UNESCO in the mid-twentieth century, in accordance with the Charter of Human Rights signed by this nation and that Jaime Torres Bodet became its main model, stating that education should be in the heart of the nations.
Meanwhile, Rafael Pacchiano Alemán said that our country has more than five natural places declared World Heritage, plus 10 percent of the planet species live in Mexico, a responsibility that has found a great partner in UNESCO for the natural richness preservation of our country.
In turn, Otto Granados Roldan said that in 1945, when UNESCO was founded after World War II, brought the hope of creating new relationships between cultures through mutual understanding, something that is still under construction with the effort of many strategic sectors that believe in civilized coexistence based on equality and education.
Finally, Miguel Ángel Mancera declared that UNESCO has been an instrument in finding the dialogue between nations, leaving behind differences and thus commemorating its 70 years of existence is going for peace and full development of peoples.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
