Venezuela was appointed by the Latin American and Caribbean Group (Grulac) to Unesco, as one of its four representatives before the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Development Goal 4-Education 2030. The other three countries that complete the regional membership are Argentina, Peru and Colombia.
The appointment took place within the framework of the plenary session of the (Grulac) held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris on September 26. Venezuela will exercise this representation from 2019 and for a two years period, being this Committee the only body responsible for providing strategic guidance to countries in the matter of education, assessing the progress of the World Education Follow-up Report and making recommendations on the priorities agreed in the international educational agenda.
The appointment of Venezuela in this Committee constitutes a new achievement of the Bolivarian Government’s Foreign Policy in the educational field, which is added to previous acknowledgments such as the Good Practices awarded to the Canaima Educational Project on November 8, 2013, the positioning of Venezuela as the 5th country in the world with the highest rate of university enrollment and 2nd in Latin America in the Education for All Report, published between 2010 and 2015 and the declaration as “territory free of illiteracy” on October 28, 2005.
Within the framework of the start of the new school year, this important international commitment of Venezuela obtained in Unesco, dismantles again the opinion matrices that are woven against the Bolivarian Educational System and the public policies implemented by the government of President Nicolás Maduro in favor of the protection of education as a fundamental human right.