United Nations, June 16 : UNESCO has chosen Buenos Aires as the World Book Capital for the year 2011 as part of the agency's ongoing efforts to promote literature and reading.
The Argentinean capital was picked "for the quality and variety of its proposed programme as well as for the consolidated strategy on which it is based," the selection committee said on Friday.
Every year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates a city for the title for 12 months between World Book and Copyright Days on April 23. Buenos Aires becomes the eleventh city honoured over the years.
The selection committee is composed of the three main professional associations in the book industry the International Publishers Association, the International Booksellers Federation and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and representatives from UNESCO.
For 2009 Beirut has the honour, to be followed by Ljubljana in 2010.
Madrid was the first city to receive the tribute, and was succeeded by Alexandria, New Delhi, Antwerp, Montreal, Turin, Bogota and Amsterdam. Z
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