Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Serbia to UNESCO actively participated in the 211th session of the Executive Board of UNESCO, which was held in a virtual format from 7th until 21st April 2021. In addition to the participation of ambassador Tamara Rastovac Siamashvili in the meetings of the Bureau of the Executive Board, as chair of the Committee on Non-Governmental Partners, as well as in the plenary debate, the Permanent Delegation spoke on a number of other items on the agenda, such as global and regional coordination and support regarding SDG 4 dedicated to education, the Global Priority Africa, strategic transformation of UNESCO and the Small Island Developing States Action Plan. We also spoke about the UNESCO Strategy on Technological Innovation in Education for the period 2021-2025 and the Draft Medium-Term Strategy and Programme and Budget of UNESCO.
At this session, among other things, the recommendation of the Executive Board for the General Conference of UNESCO on declaring the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serbian painter and activist Nadežda Petrović as the anniversary with which UNESCO will be associated in the period 2022/2023 was adopted.