Kuwait is participating in 41st session of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) general conference, launched Tuesday in Paris.

Director-general Audrey Azoulay stated that the whole world convenes in this space to voice ambitions and affirm commitment to the organization, indicating that impediments caused by the pandemic truly showed the necessity of garnering all efforts to further education.

The conference will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of establishing UNESCO, where 193 member states rectified many important resolutions regarding cultural policies, protecting heritage, the future of education and the role of technology in societies, specifically in terms of ethics.

The conference will also be rectifying many international acts, first of which is a recommendation in regards to artificial intelligence ethics.

Kuwait has played an instrumental in role in this regard, by chairing meetings aiming to lay a sturdy universal moral foundation in order to develop artificial intelligence.

The second recommendation will be revolve around Open Science and its impact on facilitating global collaboration and utilizing scientific information.

It is also expected that member states will agree on holding UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies for Development 2022, scheduled to be held in Mexico from 28 to 30 Sept 2022, 40 years after the establishing conference in Mexico.

The conference’ objective is to boost creative and cultural economic sector on a global level, especially after the pandemic.

The organization will be handing awards and medals in an effort to commend great achievements in the fields of education, knowledge and culture.

Representing Kuwait is its permanent delegate to UNESCO dr. Adam Al-Mulla and third Secretary Lujain Bo Alyan and diplomatic attach?© sheikh Muneera Al-Sabah.

Source: Kuwait News Agency