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30.09.2009
IRINA BOKOVA BECOMES FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD UNESCO
Unesco Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova has become the first woman to head Unesco, the UN culture and education agency, beating Farouk Hosni, a painter who has served as Egypt\\\'s culture minister for more than 20 years and is close to the president, Hosni Mubarak.
Bokova, 57, a former Bulgarian foreign minister, will be the first eastern European to run the Paris-based cultural body. A former Socialist party MP, served as Bulgarian foreign minister in 1996 and took part in the country\\\'s transformation from Eastern bloc nation to EU membership. She is currently Bulgarian ambassador to France.
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