Rustam Minnikhanov meets Deputy Director-general of UNESCO on social sciences and humanities Pilar Alvarez-Lazo
22 November 2011, Tuesday
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Deputy Director-general of UNESCO on social sciences and humanities Pilar Alvarez-Lazo.
The meeting took place in RT Government House with participation of Deputy PM, Chairman of RT Commission on UNESCO affairs Zilya Valeeva, Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Aide to RT President on social issues, CEO of the Republican Fund of historical and cultural monuments Tatyana Larionova.
The parties discussed expansion of UNITWIN network (UNESCO department) in Tatarstan Republic. Today international department of UNESCO is functioning at the University of Management “TISBI” in the sphere of training and retraining of specialists in the context of market relations.
Moreover, the opportunity of participation in the program of the “Conference of parties to the anti-doping convention” under the auspices of UNESCO is being considered in Tatarstan. Currently 160 countries are members of the Convention, including Russia which ratified Convention in 2006.
We remind Ms Pilar Alvarez-Lazo is in Kazan within the confines of participation in the international research and practice conference "Gender equality and bioethics".
The meeting took place in RT Government House with participation of Deputy PM, Chairman of RT Commission on UNESCO affairs Zilya Valeeva, Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Aide to RT President on social issues, CEO of the Republican Fund of historical and cultural monuments Tatyana Larionova.
The parties discussed expansion of UNITWIN network (UNESCO department) in Tatarstan Republic. Today international department of UNESCO is functioning at the University of Management “TISBI” in the sphere of training and retraining of specialists in the context of market relations.
Moreover, the opportunity of participation in the program of the “Conference of parties to the anti-doping convention” under the auspices of UNESCO is being considered in Tatarstan. Currently 160 countries are members of the Convention, including Russia which ratified Convention in 2006.
We remind Ms Pilar Alvarez-Lazo is in Kazan within the confines of participation in the international research and practice conference "Gender equality and bioethics".
RT President press service
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