Bulgaria Vice President, education minister attend Teachers’ Trade Unions on the Balkans for Peace conference

03/26/16 06:12
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Bulgaria Vice President, education minister attend Teachers’ Trade Unions on the Balkans for Peace conference

Bulgarian Vice President Margarita Popova and Meglena Kuneva, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for European Policies Coordination and Institutional Affairs and Minister of Education and Science, attended on Friday, March 25, a Balkan conference themed Teachers’ Trade Unions on the Balkans for Peace.
The event took place at the Serdica Hall of the Sofia Hotel Balkan in the capital Sofia.
It was organised by the Trade Union of Bulgarian Teachers.
The forum was attended by Martin Romer, European Director of European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) as well as representatives of teachers’ trade unions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Turkey, Cyprus, and others.
Both officials delivered statements.

“Irina Bokova has the courage and all qualities to be the best candidate to become UN Secretary-General,” Vice President Popova said.
Ms Bokova, who is Director-General of UNESCO, is the Bulgarian nominee to hold the UN top job.
“The idea of education as a bridge and as a building force of peace is an idea of UNESCO, which is today headed by a Bulgarian woman and the power of education as a peace-building force is one of UNESCO’s main missions,” the Vice President pointed out.
According to her, a new world could not be built if teachers, enlighteners, trade unions of teachers, school principals, parents, and all those for whom spiritual things are much closer than material ones are not “on the front line”.
In Popova’s view, there is nowadays a deep crisis of values, which leads to lots of suffering and hardship in many places worldwide.
According to the Vice President, people cannot live in peace without saying clearly and openly political elites, and not only those in Europe, made mistakes in lots of places and the world nowadays is not calm.
Popova remarked she deemed a model of inter-cultural dialogue in which there was no place for prejudice highly important.
The official also wished health and kindness to people on the day of Annunciation so that they are united by the power of women’s energy and convey powerful messages of enlightenment, which is the safest path to a new world without cruelty, violence, bloody wars, insults, prejudice, a world in which children would make plans for the future together and enjoy it.

“I believe there are no questions the answer to which is not connected with education and there is no problem that cannot be solved through education,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Science Meglena Kuneva, speaking at the event.
“A European politician said we made more history on the Balkans than we could bear. With respect to the fact there was yesterday a ruling of the Hague Tribunal [the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia], I think it reminded all of us how fragile in fact peace is and how much care we have to take of it no matter […] whether the conflict affected us directly or not,” the official stated.
“Today’s teachers largely replace parents, who are too busy. Even as regards the creation of basic values, nurseries and schools turn out to be of key importance,” the education minister added.
According to Ms Kuneva, it is namely teachers who can develop understanding of basic values in children – respect for other people, accepting those who are different, and tolerance.
“Teachers are those who can and should give children social values as well – observing the rule of law, obeying rules, respect for democracy, and an attitude to peace. Building this system of values goes hand in hand with the development of skills for living in the 21st century,” Meglena Kuneva opined.
In her view, the matter of literacy “shakes” all of Europe.
“Literacy and exclusion are two highly important indicators so that we can understand where and why people inclined to accept entirely strange and inhumane values appear. Lots of the things we see nowadays or worry us can be cured through education, literacy, and understanding of others,” Kuneva stated further.
“It is a political commitment of mine to place Bulgarian teachers at the centre of the Ministry of Education and Science’s efforts and restore in the society the prestige and attention teachers deserve,” she added.

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