UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

7, place de Fontenoy
75700 PARIS 

The Director-General

reference: DG/3.1/742
6 SEP, 1989

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Thank you for your letter of 1 July 1959 and for your comments
and suggestions concerning the Seville Statement on Violence. As
can be seen from the discussions, the preliminary report and the
Declaration, tho Yamoussoukro Congress not only fully endorsed the
Statement but also recommended a number of actions which should be
taken by Unesco in the future.

You may rest assured that those recommendations meet with my
unreserved approval and that I intend to implement them.

Before indicating some specific decisions and actions I have
already taken in this respect, may I first of all thank you for your
impressive work during the Congress. David, the fact that the Seville
Statement became one of the focal points of the Congress is certainly
the result of your excellent introduction to the discussion. I have
also noted with great satisfaction that you all participated very
actively in the debate and that your written response distributed
during the congress clarified in a very constructive and precise
manner points raised during the discussions.

With regard to your suggestions concerning subsequent steps
which should be taken by Unesco, I have pleasure in informing you
that your proposals do coincide with what has been done so far:

. . . . . 

Ms Riitta Wahlstrom 
Mr Samir-Kumar Ghosh
Mr Santiago Genoves
Mr David Adams
Seville Statement on violence
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