Egypt has joined four international committees of UNESO for terms ending in 2019, following a vote that occurred earlier Friday during the 38th session of the General Conference of the UN agency.

The committees are: the Intergovernmental Council of Information for All program (IFAP), Intergovernmental Council of the Management of Social Transformations program (MOST), Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property and the Executive Committee of the International Campaign for the establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

Egypt's membership in these committees reflects the great role played by Egypt in UNESCO, Egypt's ambassador to UNESCO Mohamed Sameh Amr said.

The Information for All Program is an intergovernmental program, created in 2000. Through IFAP, governments of the world have pledged to harness the new opportunities of the information age to create equitable societies through better access to information.

MOST is UNESCO's intergovernmental science program on social transformations. MOST works with governments, social and human science communities and civil societies to improve connections between knowledge and action, connections that are one key to positive social change.

The committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property is tasked with retrieving certain cultural objects of fundamental significance to their Countries of Origin.

This committee is meant to take part in establishing the Nubia Museum in the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.