CAIRO, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Egypt has been reelected as member of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for another four-year term, showed a list of winner states released by the UNESCO on Wednesday.
The vote has been held during the 39th session of the organization's biannual General Conference in Paris.
Egypt, which has been a member of the UNESCO Executive Board from 2013 to 2017, garnered 141 out 184 votes in an electoral group including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Morocco.
The four Arab states in the electoral group competed on three seats. Jordan came first with 153 votes, Egypt came second with 141 votes, Morocco came third with 125 votes and Iraq failed with 109 votes.
Egypt hailed its re-election in the world organization's 58-member executive board as "an evidence of the confidence of the international community of Egypt's diplomatic and cultural position on the international arena," according to a statement from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
"We would like to thank all friendly states that supported Egypt in these elections," said Egyptian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid in the statement.
Egypt has recently contested for the presidency of the UNESCO with its candidate Moushira Khattab, a former state minister for family and population, in recent elections but the post finally went to France's candidate and former culture minister Audery Azoulay.
