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BRI more than economic infrastructure: former UNESCO chief

STORY: BRI more than economic infrastructure: former UNESCO chief DATELINE: Sept. 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of China-related footage 2. SOUNDBITE (English): IRINA BOKOVA, Former Director-General of UNESCO STORYLINE: In an exclusive interview with Xinhua in Beijing, Irina Bokova, the former Director-General of UNESCO, said that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is much more than economic infrastructure. SOUNDBITE (English): IRINA BOKOVA, Former Director-General of UNESCO "The idea behind the Belt and Road is of course about commerce, it's about infrastructure, it's about economic development, but it is also very closely linked with the exchanges in education, in science globally, in culture among people. Now, if I look at all these experiences in these 10 years, of course there is so much economic activity, so much agreement between countries, there are fast trains and bridges and airports being built and ports. All these are so impo

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S. Korean president, UNESCO head hold talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Park Geun Hye (far R) hold talks with Irina Bokova (far L), director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 4, 2014.

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S. Korean President Park greets UNESCO head Bokova

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Park Geun Hye (R) greets Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, ahead of their talks at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 4, 2014.

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Japan receives UNESCO certificate for cultural heritage

NAGOYA, Japan - During a ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 9, 2014, Irina Bokova (L), secretary general of UNESCO, and Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura pose with a certificate to add "washoku" traditional Japanese cuisine to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The intergovernmental panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization last December approved adding traditional Japanese cuisine to the list.

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Japan foreign minister in France

PARIS, France - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, shake hands at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on May 6, 2014.

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World Heritage meeting

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova speaks during the opening ceremony of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee annual session in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 16, 2013. The meeting will determine the listing of new world heritage sites, including Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji.

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UNESCO head

KABUL, Afghanistan - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 18, 2013.

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UNESCO forum on World Heritage 40th anniv. in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova delivers an opening address at a forum marking the 40th anniversary of the 1972 adoption of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention in Kyoto on Nov. 6, 2012. The three-day meeting will discuss the conditions of world heritage sites and how to preserve them for future generations.

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Japanese tea master

PARIS, France - Japanese tea ceremony master Sen Genshitsu (L) receives a certificate from UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova (R) during an event to mark his appointment as a UNESCO goodwill ambassador at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on March 5, 2012.

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UNESCO chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2012.

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World Heritage site certificate for Hiraizumi

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Irina Bokova (L), director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hands a certificate showing the listing of the town of Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture as a World Heritage Site to Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (C) in the northeastern Japan town on Feb. 13, 2012. The temples, gardens and archaeological sites of Hiraizumi, in one of the prefectures severely ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2011.

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UNESCO chief Bokova in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, speaks in an interview at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Nov. 18, 2010, ahead of her visit to Japan. She said UNESCO will help realize a world free of nuclear weapons, propounded by U.S. President Barack Obama, through education.

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UNESCO eyes improvement in documentary listing system

Hiroshi Hase (L), Japan's minister of education, culture, sports science and technology, and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova shake hands in Paris on Nov. 6, 2015. Bokova told Hase that UNESCO is considering improving the documentary registration system of its world heritage body over its listing of Chinese papers on the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean Foreign Minister Yun meets UNESCO chief

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (R) meets Irina Bokova, visiting director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in Incheon, southwest of Seoul, on May 19, 2015. Yun is believed to have conveyed to Bokova Seoul's opposition to a recommendation by a UNESCO advisory panel to register the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" on the World Heritage List. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese tea master

PARIS, France - Japanese tea ceremony master Sen Genshitsu (L) receives a certificate from UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova (R) during an event to mark his appointment as a UNESCO goodwill ambassador at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on March 5, 2012. (Kyodo)

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UNESCO chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2012. (Kyodo)

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World Heritage site certificate for Hiraizumi

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Irina Bokova (L), director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hands a certificate showing the listing of the town of Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture as a World Heritage Site to Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (C) in the northeastern Japan town on Feb. 13, 2012. The temples, gardens and archaeological sites of Hiraizumi, in one of the prefectures severely ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japan receives UNESCO certificate for cultural heritage

NAGOYA, Japan - During a ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 9, 2014, Irina Bokova (L), secretary general of UNESCO, and Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura pose with a certificate to add "washoku" traditional Japanese cuisine to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The intergovernmental panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization last December approved adding traditional Japanese cuisine to the list. (Kyodo)

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UNESCO chief Bokova in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, speaks in an interview at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Nov. 18, 2010, ahead of her visit to Japan. She said UNESCO will help realize a world free of nuclear weapons, propounded by U.S. President Barack Obama, through education. (Kyodo)

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Jenovefa Bokova, Martin Slozil

Actress Jenovefa Bokova and her partner Martin Slozil arrive to the opening ceremony of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival begins on June 28, 2019, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Slavomir Kubes)

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Jenovefa Bokova

Actress Jenovefa Bokova arrives to the opening ceremony of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival begins on June 28, 2019, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jenovefa Bokova, Martin Slozil

Actress Jenovefa Bokova and her partner Martin Slozil arrive to the opening ceremony of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival begins on June 28, 2019, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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JENOVEFA BOKOVA

The best actress Czech Lion went to Jenovefa Bokova for her performance in Beata Parkanova's film Chvilky (Moments) in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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JENOVEFA BOKOVA

The best actress Czech Lion went to Jenovefa Bokova for her performance in Beata Parkanova's film Chvilky (Moments) in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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JENOVEFA BOKOVA

The best actress Czech Lion went to Jenovefa Bokova for her performance in Beata Parkanova's film Chvilky (Moments) in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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UNESCO-Japan ESD award ceremony in Paris

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization holds a ceremony for the 2017 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on Nov. 3, 2017. UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova (L) and Japanese education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (2nd from R) attended the ceremony for the award, funded by the Japanese government and created in 2014 to honor outstanding social, economic, cultural and environmental projects at the local and international levels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo