Silk Road Declaration - major achievement of UNWTO GA's 18th session - T.Dosmukhanbetov
ANA. October 8. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ The XVIII session of the General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization is over in Astana.
"The most important achievement is adoption of the Declaration on the Silk Road, on holding events for tourist potential development. Kazakhstan initiated it", Kazakh Minister of Tourism and Sport Temirkhan Dosmukhanbetov noted.
The participants considered a number of topical issues such as the Road Map, which leads to the tourism sphere rehabilitation, tourist travels facilitation, readiness for swine flu pandemic, technical cooperation for assistance in sustainable development with the help of tourism.
The session participants noted high organization of the event and expressed gratitude to our country. The UNWTO General Assembly's XIX session will be held in South Korea in 2011.