Education and development to take centre stage at 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference (16 October – 3 November)

The next session of the General Conference which governs UNESCO will open on 16 October in Paris.

Two ministerial round tables – on education and on science – a youth forum and an international civil society forum are on the agenda of the session. Close to 2,000 participants are expected, including numerous ministers and some ten heads of State and government * who will take the floor before representatives of the Organization’s 192 Member States.