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Secretary-General Donates School Textbook to UNESCO Exhibit
Irina Bokova (left), Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second from left) speak at UNESCO’s Open exhibition in Paris, where Mr. Ban has donated his school textbook from 1956. In the aftermath of the war in the Republic of Korea, when Mr. Ban was a boy, UNESCO printed national textbooks as part of a countrywide reconstruction effort. In the caption box beside the book, Mr. Ban is quoted: “When I am asked as Secretary-General the secret of my country’s economic development and political maturity in a short period, my answer is simple – it is education.”
09 October 2012
Paris, France
Photo # 531603
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