The newly appointed Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Khaled El Enany said on Thursday that the world today needs a strong and united UNESCO – an organization that looks to the future instead of turning inward, that chooses consensus over division and that places humanity at the heart of its mission.
He pledged to serve humanity in all its diversity and to build a “UNESCO for all.”
The 43rd session of the UNESCO’s General Conference, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan) officially approved the appointment of Enany, the former Egyptian minister of tourism and antiquities, as the organization’s director-general following his election, in which he received 172 votes out of a total of 174.
The UNESCO Regional Office, based in Cairo, congratulated Enany on assuming this post; being the 12th director-general of the organization, the first from the Arab world and the second from the African continent.
Enany voiced gratitude to all member states and partners for their trust, reiterating Egypt’s steadfast commitment as one of UNESCO’s founding members for the past 80 years.
