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Secretary-General Donates School Textbook to UNESCO Exhibit
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) speaks at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s Open exhibition in Paris, after donating his 1956 school textbook for display. When Mr. Ban was a boy, in the aftermath of the war in the Republic of Korea, UNESCO printed national textbooks as part of a countrywide reconstruction effort. Mr. Ban is quoted in the caption box beside the book: “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 # 531605
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