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Tourism : Romania becomes chairman of UNWTO Executive Couuncil
Romania was granted the position of chairman of the Executive Council of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) following its application submitted by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT), reads a release sent by MDRT on Thursday.
'We are ready to see out the mandate of chairman, and the unanimous vote in favour of Romania given by the members of the UNWTO Executive Council yesterday [Wednesday, October 24] in Mexico confirms their trust in our ability to manage the organisation agenda. As long as we will hold the chairman position, we will set and develop some projects meant to contribute to reaching the UNWTO targets,' said Minister of Regional Development and Tourism Eduard Hellvig.
Romania will run its mandate of chairman of the Executive Council for a year, until the autumn of 2013. Romania has been a member, deputy chairman and prime deputy-chairman of this body over the past three years successively.
The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organisation made up of 32 member states is the leading structure coordinating the activity of the organisation between the meetings of the General Assembly and make sure the organisation activities are brought to an end.
UNWTO is the United Nations agency coordinating the promotion of responsible sustainable and accessible tourism internationally. UNWTO has 155 member states as full members, 6 associate members and more than 400 affiliated members from the private, educational, associative and public sector. Romania has been a founding member of the UNWTO since 1975 with full rights.