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# OFFICIAL VISIT TO CAMEROON
# MADAM AUDREY AZOULAY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION (UNESCO)
Yaounde, 5-7 February 2022
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# CONTENTS
Sheet 1 : Context of the visit
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Sheet 2 : Biography of Madam Audrey AZOULAY, Director-General of UNESCO
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Sheet 3 : Major elements of Cameroon-UNESCO Cooperation
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OFFICIAL VISIT TO CAMEROON
MADAM AUDREY AZOULAY
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNESCO
Yaounde, 5-7 February 2022
# CONTEXT OF THE VISIT
Madam Audrey AZOULAY, Director-General of UNESCO, will pay an official visit to Cameroon from 5 to 7 February 2022. This visit will be an opportunity to take stock of the cooperation between Cameroon and UNESCO which dates back to 11 November 1960.
The Director-General of UNESCO arrives in Cameroon on the eve of the final of the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2021). On Sunday 6 February 2022, she will be the guest of honour of the Head of State, H.E. Paul BIYA at the Olembe Stadium during the Total Energies 2021 AFCON final. Her presence at this event reflects UNESCO's commitment to the values of sport in general and football in particular. Sport is, in fact, one of UNESCO's flagship programmes, which has made it a tool for dialogue between civilisations, cultures and peoples and an indispensable element of social cohesion and harmony between peoples. In this, Cameroon is in perfect symbiosis with UNESCO.
This visit also comes in a context marked by a new strategic vision driven by Madam AZOULAY since her election in 2017 at the head of UNESCO. In her new mandate, which began in 2021, she advocates education for development, the invention of a new relationship between humanity and its environment, peace and cohesion in our societies and the mastery of the digital revolution.
The visit of the Director-General of UNESCO to Cameroon comes at a time of a transition at the head of UNESCO's Regional and Multi-sectoral Office in Central Africa, which is based in Yaounde. The outgoing head of the said Office, Salah Khaled, has been assigned to the UNESCO Office in the Persian Gulf region with residence in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. But he will continue to follow up on certain files initiated in Cameroon, such as the steps aimed at increasing the funding of Gulf countries in some UNESCO projects in Central Africa.
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OFFICIAL VISIT TO CAMEROON MADAM AUDREY AZOULAY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNESCO
Yaounde, 5-7 February 2022
# BIOGRAPHY OF MADAM AUDREY AZOULAY, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNESCO