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Azerbaijani National Commission for UNESCO to hold Competition for children

11 April 2014 [12:00] - TODAY.AZ
By AzerNews

Azerbaijani National Commission for UNESCO will organize the Kids Competition 2014 on April 23.

Called "Draw your own Book Cover", the competition will mark the World Book and Copyright Day. Each participant should draw his/her book cover that illustrates the "Respecting Differences" theme.

The UNESCO believes that education is essential for strengthening the foundations of tolerance, reducing discrimination and violence, and learning to live together.

"Education is vital to achieve these goals and cultivate respect for all people regardless of color, gender, or national, ethnic or religious identity," the report says. "It is especially important to reach out to children and young people during their formative years, notably through educational materials and curricula."

The cover's original copy should be sent to the office of the National Commission for UNESCO of the responding country not later than April 20, 2014.

"Contestants must be aged 6 to 13 years old. This is an ideal activity for individual students and community youth club members. There is no limit in the number of book cover entries a school or a youth club can submit. Children from all over the world are invited to participate in the competition by the closing date of 20 April 2014," the UNESCO says.

Up to five drawings per age group (from 6 to 9 and from 10 to 13) will be selected by the National Commission of each country.

Finalists at the national level will receive a UNESCO certificate, and have a chance to enter the international round, where the drawings will be judged by an independent jury of experts.

Three drawings per age group will be selected by the jury at the UNESCO Headquarters in May, 2014. There will be six winners, and each will receive a UNESCO certificate and a UNESCO medal. The drawings will be scanned and put online on the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day webpage: www.unesco.org/new/wbcd.

The ultimate goal of the competition is to encourage authors and artists and make sure that more men and women benefit from literacy, since books are the most powerful forces of poverty eradication and peace building.

Deciding to cooperate with the UNESCO, which provides its member states with opportunities to benefit from the assistance of high-level experts and technical aid, training of scientific and pedagogical personnel, and participation in global scientific projects, Azerbaijan joined the organization on July 3, 1992.

The most significant step in the development of UNESCO-Azerbaijan relations was taken during the meeting of Azerbaijan's National leader Heydar Aliyev with Director General of the UNESCO Federico Mayor during his official visit to France in December, 1993.

The two sides discussed prospective plans for enhancing and developing cooperation between them.

Heydar Aliyev signed the order to establish the National Commission of Azerbaijan for the UNESCO on February 21, 1994.

The Commission was established under Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry and consisted of 25 members, who were the heads of relevant ministries and agencies, intellectuals, and other representatives of society, and the permanent secretariat.

Taking into account the level of development of mutual relations between the UNESCO and Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on additional measures related to the National Commission on 2005. Under the order, the new composition of the Commission was defined.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is the current Chairman of the Commission.
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