PARIS: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is on a three-day working visit to France from March 17-20 during which she will be chairing two Unesco Management of Social Transformation (MOST) meetings.
Malaysia’s Ambassador to France Datuk Dr Azfar Mohamad Mustafar said this is her first working visit to France since being appointed Deputy Prime Minister on May 12 last year.
“Dr Wan Azizah will be chairing the MOST Bureau meeting on March 18 and the 14th Session of the Intergovernmental Council (IGC) for MOST which will take place on March 19 and 20 at the Unesco headquarters in Place De Fontenoy here.
“She will be chairing the two meetings in her capacity as Women, Family and Community Development Minister and for the record, Malaysia holds the president’s chair of the IGC Bureau for the 2017-2019 term,” he told Malaysian journalists here Saturday in conjunction with the deputy prime minister’s visit.
MOST is a science programme involving 35 Unesco members on social transformation to encourage social science research to be used by policy makers at the global level. The members include France, Turkey, Russia, Argentina, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. – Bernama
