“I have often wondered how the UNESCO Chair of the World Linguistic Heritage of the UPV/EHU and Basque bilingual/multilingual education come together. In fact, one seems to be a very local thing and the other totally international. The fact is that linguistic diversity in UNESCO has also become a priority in recent years, and that diversity has been linked to multilingual training or education. They have been formulated recently, that is to say at the general congress held last October. In addition to recognizing Palestine, the Congress aims to link the linguistic and cultural diversity of the world with the research and promotion of multilingual educational systems. What is more, this multilingualism indicates the need to integrate the learning of minority languages, not only for the communities of that language, but also for the communities of the large languages. The effort of the speakers of the large languages to learn one or the other of the small languages around them has been seen as an essential condition for the world to be wiser, richer and more peaceful. Therefore, in our environment we are not so diverted.”