Education Minister: UNESCO Informed of Education Sector Losses by Terrorism

Education Minister Hazwan al-Wazz said terrorist acts have affected the educational and administrative cadres as 227 people have been killed, including 101 students, and many others have been abducted.

The Minister’s remarks came during the Minister’s meeting with the National Committee for Education, Science and Culture members on Wednesday, local media reported.

Dr al-Wazz stressed the importance of keeping informing the UNESCO of the damages and losses that the state’s sectors -particularly education – are being encountering due to terrorism that has targeted hundreds of schools and cadres for two years, the latest of which is targeting an education staff members while they were transferring exam papers in Nubbol City in Aleppo.

The Minister reviewed the activities of the Syrian delegation participating in the 191st session for the UNESCO Executive Council held recently in Paris, particularly to foil Turkey’s attempt backed by the USA and Canada to freeze Syria’s membership in the UNESCO.

The Syrian delegation refuted the Turkish delegation’s allegations on what they considered as ‘Syria’s (the member state in the UNESCO) violation of the signed agreements’ and charters’ contents.

The Syrian delegation unmasked the conspiracy’s details that is hatched against Syria prepared by the US and its allies from some Arab and NATO countries along with the Zionist entity in the forum of the UNESCO.

Minister al-Wazz clarified the terrorist groups’ attempts to hit the social fabric, deplete the national economy, destroy the infrastructure, target the national media and to assassinate the scientific and educational cadres.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the National Committee for Education, Science and Culture, Dr Nidal Hassan, stressed that the Committee has informed the UNESCO of the attacks launched by the terrorist groups in order to shoulder its responsibility.

M.D