UNESCO Ratifies February 9 as World Greek Language Day

The determination volition represent planetary designation of the timeless publication of the Greek language to the taste practice of humanity. Credit: Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0

The 43rd UNESCO General Conference, presently being held successful Samarkand, Uzbekistan, is expected to ratify the determination taken by its Executive Council past April to found February 9 arsenic the World Day of the Greek Language.

This historical determination is awaited with peculiar restitution successful Athens, arsenic it volition represent planetary designation of the timeless publication of the Greek connection to the taste practice of humanity.

During the General Conference, the Egyptian campaigner Dr Khaled El Enany volition beryllium elected arsenic the caller Director-General.

On Thursday, astatine the commencement of the proceedings, the Permanent Representative of Greece to UNESCO, Georgios Koumoutsakos, was elected President of the Culture Committee of the General Conference.

Messages astatine the lawsuit volition beryllium delivered by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cyprus’s President Nikos Christodoulides.

On October 28, UNESCO officially announced the assignment of Constanza Smpokou-Constantakopoulou arsenic UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Protection and Promotion of Culture.

Greek Language Day

International Greek Language Day is celebrated annually on February 9, the time that besides honors the representation of the Greek nationalist writer Dionysios Solomos, who wrote Greece’s nationalist anthem, “Hymn to Liberty.”

This solemnisation seeks to item the Greek language’s cardinal relation and defining publication successful the improvement and constitution of European and satellite literacy and culture.

Greek remains a connection that greatly enriches planetary technological discourse. More than immoderate different tongue, it is the connection that developed, shaped, and expressed astir of the technological theories, philosophical thoughts, and lit successful astir of the modern-day languages of the Western world.