UNESCO Director-General Madame Irina Bokova announced on 26 October 2010, that the 12 SAF institutions can use the UNESCO logo as long as it is always associated with Madanjeet Singh's name and his official title of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador....
May I at the very outset mention that I am delighted to be with you today, an occasion which is a double honour for me to represent Mme Irina Bokova, the first woman Director-General of UNESCO, and to inaugurate the exhibition of Mr. Husson-Dumoutier’a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to inform you that the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 185th session adopted 185 EX/Decision 35 by which the Board approved the modifications of Article 6 of the Statutes of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence...
The passing away of Marxist stalwart Jyoti Basu ends an important chapter of India’s history of Independence led by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, writes MADANJEET SINGH.