Korea elected to UNESCO executive board

Korea elected to UNESCO executive board

Korea has been elected to the executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the fifth consecutive term since 2007, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.

Russia not elected to UNESCO Executive Board for the first time

Russia was not elected to the UNESCO Executive Board during a Nov. 15 vote "for the first time in history," President Volodymyr Zelensky said."The era of Russian influence is over, and rightly so: Russian terrorists have no place at the head of significant international bodies," the president wrote on the social media platform X.According to the voting results published on UNESCO's website, Serbia, Albania, Slovakia, and Czechia were elected for…