PARIS, October 13. /TASS/.
Audrey Azoulay, a French politician and former minister of culture, has been
elected director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
According to a TASS
correspondent, most of the UNESCO Executive Board members voted in favor of
Azoulay’s candidature at Friday’s voting.
Thirty out of UNESCO’s 58
member nations supported her candidature in the last round of voting. Her
rival, Qatar’s former Culture Minister Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, scored 28
votes.
The new UNESCO director
general will be approved by the organization’s 39th General Conference due to
be held next month.
Initially, representatives of
nine nations ran for UNESCO director general but Guatemala and Iraq withdrew
their applications before the voting. Later on, Azerbaijan also withdrew its
candidate. The move was followed by Vietnam, China, and Lebanon. Egypt’s
candidate fell out of the race before the final voting after losing to the
French politician in an interim round.
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