‘Soft Power for Peace and Development – UNESCO and the SDGs’

‘Soft Power for Peace and Development’ – Remarks by Irina Bokova, DG, UNESCO

(SPEECH TEXT) – I am deeply honoured to speak at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies. Lakshman Kadirgamar was a great statesman and politician. He was a man of intellect, a man renowned for his wit. He was, most of all, a great humanist. … devoted to human rights and equal […]