Video & Text: Secretary Clinton's Remarks with UNESCO Secretary General Irina Bokova

Remarks With United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director General Irina Bokova Before Their Meeting


Washington, DC
January 22, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I’m just so delighted to have this meeting and to have a chance to talk with the new director general about the upcoming agenda for UNESCO. We are so pleased to have her here in the United States and at the State Department, and I look forward to a very substantive discussion today and a lot of work ahead.

DIRECTOR GENERAL BOKOVA: Thank you. Thank you very much. I am very pleased to have my first official visit in the United States. I hope this is a new, fresh start of our cooperation. I’m very excited. We have an agenda. It’s education, it’s science, it’s climate change, it’s education of girls --

SECRETARY CLINTON: Mm-hmm.

DIRECTOR GENERAL BOKOVA: -- of women, literacy. I am very much looking forward to talking to you about all these issues.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you so much.

DIRECTOR GENERAL BOKOVA: Thank you. Thank you very much.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all.