President Lennart Meri and Federico Mayor, Director General of the UNESCO, signed the Memorandum of Co-operation between the Republic of Estonia and UNESCO today in Kadriorg.
In the Memorandum of Co-Operation between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Republic of Estonia the Parties agreed that UNESCO will provide support for Estonia's activities aiming at the implementation of the ideals of the culture of peace, including the continuation of the series of international experts' meetings on ''The Art of Peace'' and the establishment of the Baltic House of Peace, and also that Estonia will further the development of education, science, culture, communication and informatics and intensify its multilateral and bilateral contacts in these fields and continue to support fully the objectives, strategies and priorities set forth in UNESCO's Medium Term Strategy (1996-2001) and their implementation under the Programme and Budget for 1998 – 1999 and will make every effort to contribute actively to the major initiatives of the Organization.
After the signing ceremony Director General Mayor said that Estonian accession to the European Union is not only reasonable for Estonia, but also in the interests of Western Europe.
The President noted that the signed memorandum includes several specific projects. Federico Mayor gave a collection of his poems as a present to the President and expressed his hope that the poems will soon be published in Estonian.

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