Puducherry Oct 9 : The 40th anniversary of the foundation of Auroville International Project, a city of universal brotherhood, near here will be celebrated in Paris tomorrow.
UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura and the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of India to UNESCO Bhaswati Mukherjee have organised the events to celebrate the foundation day, a release from Auroville, established by the Mother of Shri Aurobindo Ashram here, said.
A multi-media presention on `Auroville and the ideal of Human unity` and a round table on the topic of `Auroville-an emerging world and its future horizons` would form part of the celebrations.
Speakers from UNESCO and the Government of India and also delegates of the Auroville Township would present talks at the celebration. A cultural programme would also be held at the celebratiuon. The event would be webcast live on http://www.Aurovilleradio.Org/, the release said The Executive Board of UNESCO, whose General Assembly had supported the Auroville project through its resolutions adopted in 1966, 1968, 1970 and 1983, had issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary celebration highlighting the importance of the project.
The release quoted the UNESCO as saying “Auroville is a successful and unique model project proving the capacity of an international community after forty years of its existence to continue to live up to its initial founding ideals of peace and international harmony and within the spirit of mutual respect and sustainable develoment which are also UNESCO`s own values and principles as well as some of its major priorities`. – Agencies