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Minister cautions about ethnic
clashes
Accra, June 23, Ghanadot/GNA – Professor Domonoc Fobih,
Minister of Education, Science and Sports on Monday said
nations must continue to create the necessary conditions for
intercultural and interfaith dialogue that eliminated ethnic
and interfaith prejudices and conflicts.
He said, “We need to redouble our effects so as to meet the
2015 deadlines for Education for All and the Millennium
Development Goals.
“The issues of climate change and adaptation of strategies
that are of utmost importance to everyone, likewise emerging
ethical issues in science and technology.”
Opening a photo exhibition of 50 years of UNESCO’S of
existence, Prof. Fobih said, “the organisation’s mission is
one for all humankind and for that matter, it is necessary
that we endeavour to revive the power of inspiration that
guided the Organization’s founding fathers by rekindling
their sense of hope and vision in our quest for global peace
and security in continuing the work they started in
earnest”.
The Commission’s 50 years of existence has indeed witnessed
significant achievements and fruitful partnership between
UNESCO and Ghana.
He said; “It therefore comes as no surprise that the theme
for the fiftieth anniversary celebrations was chosen as;
“UNESCO and Ghana: 50 years of partnership and development”.
Prof. Fobih said the exhibition was an attempt of bringing
to the fore some of those significant achievements as well
as the benefits Ghana had derived from UNESCO over the
years.
The exhibition therefore highlights Ghana’s presence at
UNESCO General Conferences and Executive Board Meetings as
well as visits of past Directors – General of Unesco to
Ghana, dating from as back as 1959.
“It also recasts some major interventions UNESCO has made to
Ghana’s developmental processes and the activities of the
Associated Schools Project Network and the UNESCO Clubs
Movement as well as some Awards we have received.
“The latest being the UNESCO – UNEVOC TVET Award won by the
Accra Technical Training Institute in November 2007.”
Prof Fobih said; “In commemorating the fiftieth anniversary
of the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO, we must
congratulate ourselves for all the accomplishments over the
past fifty years and that it ought to acknowledge the
challenges ahead in sustaining the ideals and tenets of
UNESCO in Ghana,
we shall continue to contribute to capacity-building in the
various governmental and non governmental institutions of
the country, towards nation-building.
Ms. Charity Amamoo, Secretary General of the Ghana National
Commission for UNESCO said the theme adopted for the
exhibition is: UNESCO and Ghana, 50 years of Partnership and
Development.
She said, “Through this photo exhibition, we seek to
appreciate the past, whilst we acknowledge the present and
build towards the future.”
It is a week-long series of lectures on such topical and
global issues as climate-change and water scarcity.
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