Koichiro Matsuura, director of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, said his agency would be ready to cooperate in such efforts.
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Matsunaga, nevertheless, asked Chirac to back down on the French decision to resume underground nuclear tests, Japanese Ambassador to France Koichiro Matsuura said.
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At the opening of the meeting, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura urged the United Nations to impose a temporary embargo on Iraqi cultural objects.
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UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura said he hoped that member states would soon ratify the International Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO director-general, said another priority is the forests the apes live in, which provide food, water and medicine.
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The Paris-based UNESCO's director general, Koichiro Matsuura, on Wednesday described the decision as " a real cultural disaster ."
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Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO's director-general, called for a U . N . resolution imposing a temporary embargo on trade in Iraqi antiquities.
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Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO director-general, says the world market in stolen antiquities amounts to US $ 5 billion a year, second only to drugs.
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In Sarajevo, Koichiro Matsuura met with members of the Bosnian multiethnic presidency, prime minister Dragan Mikerevic as well as other high-ranking officials and cultural workers.
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Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO director-general, has said the world market in stolen antiquities amounts to US $ 5 billion a year, second only to drugs.
