The skillful management of UNESCO can have a significant impact on the implementation of the organization’s chief objectives, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said at a meeting with the newly-elected UNESCO executive director Audrey Azoulay in Paris on Thursday, December 21.

At the meeting, both of them stressed that the unnecessary politicization of the organization is not in the interest of efficient cooperation.

Also, Nalbandian and Azoulay weighed in on the Francophonie summit, to be held in Yerevan in 2018

Kochari, a traditional Armenian group dance, as well as the dolma making and sharing tradition, a marker of cultural identity have been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Despite the fact that dolma is a purely Armenian dish, it was registered as a “traditional Azerbaijani dish.”