.jpg "A combination photo shows images of some works inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list.")
TEHRAN -- Iran has bid to host a meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program in 2013.
The International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Program will decided about registration of submissions from countries UNESCO’s memory of the world list during the meeting.
The proposal was submitted by National Committee for the Memory of the World Director Es’haq Salahi to UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office Director Tarja Virtanen during a sub-regional meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program on Monday.
Iran National Commissioner for UNESCO Mohammadreza Saeidabadi, Turkmen National Commissioner for UNESCO Secretary-General Poladov Kouvandyk, National Archives of Pakistan Director-General Habib Ahmed Khan, and several other UNESCO officials attended the meeting.
Salahi, who is also the director of the Iran National Library and Archives, said that a large number of documents on the written national heritages of Africa, Asia and the Latin America that are kept in the United States and some European countries are in danger.
He urged the UNESCO to pay more attention to these written heritages and to oblige the U.S. and Europe to give the real owners -- the countries in African, Asia and the Latin America -- a list of the objects.
In 2008, UNESCO accepted Iran’s bid to host the World Philosophy Day in November 2010. However, the organization announced later that it would not take part in the World Philosophy Day events.
“The conditions necessary to guarantee the effective organization of a UN international conference have not been met,” UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said in a statement.
Ambassador and permanent delegate of the Islamic Republic of Iran to UNESCO Mohammadreza Majidi had said that UNESCO pulled out of the World Philosophy Day under pressure from the Zionists.
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