woensdag 15 oktober 2025

SDG Visit to Armenia

Queen Mathilde is making a visit to Armenia as ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations from 13 October to 16 October 2025.2

Monday 13 October 2025

Departure from Brussels on a regular flight. Mathilde's accompanied by her SDG advisor, Jean-Louis Six, her personal secretary, Macheld Fostier, communications director Xavier Baert, community manager Solène Lévêque, security guards and a hairdresser.


Tuesday 14 October 2025

Queen Mathilde at the UN House in Yerevan, accompanied by Eric de Muynck, Belgian ambassador to Armenia and Jan Bosmans, Deputy Head of Mission.










 At Mission Armenia Social Services, a counselling and social support centre backed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Queen Mathilde learnt about initiatives helping refugees integrate into society.



Next on the programme: an audience with the Armenian President, Vahagn Khachaturyan.






Then Mathilde took part in a working lunch on gender equality, where she met four Armenian women with inspiring life stories. Together, they discussed women’s empowerment in Armenian society.




In the afternoon, Mathilde met with students from Yerevan State University to discuss their vision of sustainable development.






Finally, Queen Mathilde visited the TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies, an Armenian initiative offering free extracurricular training to young people, from robotics and coding to graphic design and electronic music. TUMO will soon be opening a new centre in Liège, Belgium.





At the end of the day there was a reception where Queen Mathilde met with Belgians residing in Armenia.


Wednesday 15 October 2025

Queen Mathilde visited the Norashen National Park to launch a reforestation project led by the ‘My Forest Armenia association’. It aims to transform a mid-mountain pasture into a thriving woodland to help combat climate change and boost biodiversity.  









In Armenia, the school enrolment rate for children under the age of five remains relatively low, particularly in rural areas. In response, the Armenian authorities, in partnership with UNICEF, are working to expand access to early childhood education by establishing new nursery schools and training qualified educational staff. Queen Mathilde visited the nursery school in Tsaghkunk that was fully renovated by UNICEF.








Later Mathilde Queen Mathilde took part in a traditional Armenian lavash baking ceremony.



Then Queen Mathilde visited the Avan Centre for Mental Health, where she learnt about the wide range of therapeutic services offered, including residential and outpatient care, psychotherapy, and art therapy. 



At the end of the day, the Queen discussed the implementation of the SDGs in Armenia with Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.



In a brief interview to Belga, Mathilde said: "I think young people nowadays are much more passionate about sustainability than my generation was back in the day. Princess Elisabeth, well all of my four children, they share this determination to improve something."

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