Azerbaijan

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 3 June 1992

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan: H.E. Mr Ilham ALIYEV
Premier ministre: Mr Artur Rasizade

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Eleonora Husseinova
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate (2/18/1997)

Permanent Delegation of Azerbaijan to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux MR.25 et MR.40 1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.28.77
01.45.68.34.00
Fax: 01.43.06.05.47
E-mail: dl.azerbaidjan@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairperson: M. Elmar Mammadyarov*
Acting Secretary-General: Mrs Gunay Efendiyeva

National Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan for UNESCO
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shikhali Gurbanov Str. 4 1009 BAKU AZERBAIJAN
Telephone: (994.12) 596 93 22; (994.12) 596 90 72;
Fax: (994.12) 596 94 07
E-mail: unesco@mfa.gov.az;

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Representative		2005-2009	172 - 181
Representative		2007- 2009	178-182

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 2014)

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  Member : Fatma ABDULLAZADE

Celebration of anniversaries

One thousand three hundredth anniversary of the epic Azerbaijani legend Kitab-i Dede Qorqud (1998).

Eight hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nasir ad-Din Toosi (2001)

200th anniversary of the birth of Mirza Kazem-Bey (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Yusif Mammedeliyev (2005)

100th anniversary of the birth of Latif Kerimov, carpet-maker artist (1906-1991) (2006)

100th anniversary of the first opera in the East: “Leyli and Majnun” (1908) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Mir Jalal Pashayev, writer (1908-1978) (2008)

100th anniversary of Musa Aliyev, geologist (1908-1985) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Sattar Bahlulzade, artist (1909-1974) (2009)