United Nations: Mosul Revival is the largest UNESCO-led operation in the world
The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, revealed today, Friday, that the revival of the city of Mosul constitutes the largest operation led by UNESCO in the world in terms of scale and importance.
During her meeting today with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani, at his residence in Paris, she praised the "distinguished relations with Iraq because of the historical depth it represents, and welcomed Iraq's candidacy for the Executive Board of UNESCO," according to a statement of the Iraqi government.
"The organization is proceeding with the technical and vocational training project in Iraq," Azoulay confirmed.
For his part, Al-Sudani appreciated UNESCO's initiative to "revive the spirit of Mosul and reconstruct Al-Nouri Mosque, looking forward to cooperating with the organization to include more Iraqi sites on the World Heritage List, and to contribute to vocational training for workers and the development of the education sector."
And he renewed the Iraqi government's desire "to cooperate with the UN organization by establishing training and development programs for middle cadres, to implement small and medium projects, in a way that helps provide job opportunities for young people within the framework of the sustainable development plan and the aspiration for Iraq to have an important presence in the Executive Council of UNESCO."
The two sides called for consolidating joint cooperation between Iraq and UNESCO, and building partnerships to promote sustainable development in the sectors of culture, education and various fields of science.
On the other hand, Iraq and France signed, today, Friday, on the sidelines of the visit of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani, to Paris, a memorandum of understanding in the field of combating corruption, as it was signed by the head of the Integrity Commission on the Iraqi side, while it was signed on the French side by the head of the French Agency for Combating Corruption.
The memorandum included a number of topics related to joint cooperation between the two countries in the field of combating corruption, exchanging information and investigating corruption crimes and limiting its spread, recovering stolen and smuggled Iraqi funds before and after 2003, as well as recovering those wanted in corruption cases, and combating money laundering operations.
It also included axes for technical cooperation to prevent and combat corruption, enhance expertise, and develop and improve anti-corruption strategies and policies.
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