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UNESCO chief visits Slovakia for second time

Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova is set to arrive in Slovakia Thursday evening to pay her second official visit to the country.

During her two-day tour, Bokova is due to meet President Andrej Kiska, several government ministers and officials of Slovak towns listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

According to the Slovak foreign and European affairs ministry, Bokova will open her official program on Friday morning with a lecture at Comenius University in Bratislava. The theme of her lecture is "Empowering youth, promoting diversity -- new foundation for resilience and peace."

Her first visit to Slovakia as UNESCO head was in 2012. Bokova became UNESCO's tenth director-general in 2009, making her the first woman and the first Eastern European to head the agency.

In February, Bokova was named as Bulgaria's official candidate for the post of UN secretary-general. Endit