During this general debate, we are invited to build our interventions around the items on the agenda of this 219th session of the Executive Board. But you will understand that, in this UNESCO House whose mandate is the construction of peace, it would be impossible for me today to engage in an exchange on C/5 technicalities, when all the tools necessary for this peace are undergoing an unprecedented assault at home. At a time when education, science and culture are sinking deeper into the infernal abyss that has engulfed my people for too lon
Dominique Dupuy Speaks Up for Haiti at UNESCO
On the 219th session of Unesco's Executive Board, Haiti's Permanent Delegate to this body, Ambassador Dominique Dupuy, described the country's serious security and political crisis. In a moving speech, Madame Dupuy spoke of a "capital that is turning into a open grave". Below is the full text of her speech.