HE the Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate for the post of Unesco Director-General Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz al-Kuwari has underlined the depth of relations between Unesco and Qatar which are based on friendship and co-operation in various fields. 
This came in the first speech he gave abroad after the declaration of his candidacy for the post of Unesco director-general at the diplomats forum in Paris on Tuesday night in the presence of Qatar’s ambassador to France Sheikh Mishaal bin Hamad al-Thani, Qatar’s Permanent Delegate to Unesco Ali Zainal, a group of Arab and foreign diplomats, representatives of states to Unesco and French intellectuals including Jack Mathieu Emile Lang, the former French minister of culture and Director of the Arab World Institute in Paris. 
Dr al-Kuwari said in 2003 relations between Qatar and Unesco began to take a new turn with the appointment of HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser as Unesco Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education. He referred in this respect to the commitment of Qatar towards education through WISE Conference, Educate a Child and Education Above All, paved the opportunity for more than 10mn children to have education in the most vulnerable and marginal areas of the world.