Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar's candidate for the Director-General post at the Unesco, H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern in Vienna, yesterday.
Vienna: Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern met with Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar's candidate for the Director-General post at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)
H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari who presented his vision and electoral program for the Unesco leadership.
The Chancellor welcomed the candidate, praising the excellent relations between the two friendly countries in various fields and looking forward to developing them. Kern pointed out that Austria attaches great importance to Unesco and seeks to see Dr Al Kawari's vision through his diagnosis of the crisis of the organisation and his vision to deal with it, especially after he followed up closely the detailed discussions held in the Executive Council last April, stressing his country's keenness on all issues related to Unesco and issues relating to education, culture and science. He also noted that Vienna is one of the most important cultural capitals that give museums and heritage a great interest of interest, expressing his best wishes of success to Dr Al Kawari and hope to cooperate with him in the future.
Dr Al Kawari presented his vision of the Unesco issue and the challenges facing it as well as the international community's duty to support Unesco to enable it to play its expected role. He also addressed the role of Unesco in education which eliminates the ignorance that constitutes the incubator of terrorism. He presented his vision of how to deal with the financial crisis of the Unesco and the need to overcome the political obstacles that hinder the organisation from focusing on its main objectives in education, culture and arts.
