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The conference final document – Yakutsk Call for Action: a Roadmap towards
the World Summit on Multilingualism (2017) – was unanimously adopted at
the closing session.
The conference was a real success thanks to the active support by the
Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO and its leaders – Sergei
Lavrov, Chairman of the Commission and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Russian Federation, and Grigory Orjonikidze, Executive Secretary of the
Commission; by the Ministry of Culture and especially Andrei Busygin, Deputy
Minister, as well as Tatyana Manilova, Head of the Division of Libraries and
Archives, and by the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
We are extremely grateful for the invaluable contribution to the preparation of
this conference to a new partner of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO
Information for All Programme, the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU),
which is being managed nowadays by our old friend Evgenia Mikhailova,
former Vice-President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). If not for her good
will and patronage we would not have been able to hold our First Conference
in 2008 either in Yakutsk or in any other city of Russia. Consequently, the
Second conference could not have been convened either.
Special thanks go to Adama Samassekou and Daniel Prado, whose
achievements, commitment to the honorable cause of language preservation,
and global vision of the problem of multilingualism have been inspiring us
over the recent years.
And, last but not least, I thank our friends from the NEFU – Vice-Rector
Nadezhda Zaikova; a young Head of the recently established Centre to Advance
Multilingualism in Cyberspace Liudmila Zhirkova, for whom participating in
the Conference preparation turned out to be a real trial by fire; a new Director
of the University Library Tatiana Maximova and all Yakut colleagues who
contributed to the organization of this conference.
We believe that this collection of conference materials will be valuable for all those
who face the necessity to tackle the essential problems of preserving linguistic
and cultural diversity, and developing it in cyberspace at the contemporary level.
Evgeny Kuzmin
Chair, Intergovernmental Council and Russian Committee,
UNESCO Information for All Programme,
President, International Library Cooperation Centre,
Co-Chair, Conference Organizing Committee
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