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Freedom of access to information can be achieved owing to quality education and encouragement of multilingualism - Matsura

Access to transboundary flow of information can be achieved only owing to maintenance of quality education and encouragement of multilingualism. The message on the occasion of World Day of Freedom of Press of the UN General Director for Education, Science and Culture Koitiro Matsura widespread by UNESCO Bureau in Almaty on Thursday states, the agency reports.

Almaty. May 4. Kazakhstan Today - Access to transboundary flow of information can be achieved only owing to maintenance of quality education and encouragement of multilingualism. The message on the occasion of World Day of Freedom of Press of the UN General Director for Education, Science and Culture Koitiro Matsura widespread by UNESCO Bureau in Almaty on Thursday states, the agency reports.

The message states that freedom of wider and regular self-expression in your mother language, as well as development of other national, regional or international languages is in the center of attention of UNESCO within the limits of the International Year of Languages.

"In the absence of the effective policy encouraging language variety in all aspects of life of each country - at schools, administration bodies of managerial control, in the sphere law and mass media - we risk to deprive hundreds of thousand people all over the world the basic right to participation in public life and public discussions," UNESCO General Director emphasizes.

In K. Matsura's opinion, technical achievements, for example the Internet, increase "possibilities of exchange of opinions between people." However, UNESCO chairman emphasizes, "freedom of information and availability of on-line information do not guarantee access to it "as capacity to use these means can be achieved only owing to maintenance of quality education and encouragement of multilingualism."

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