Cuba

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 29 August 1947

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros: Excmo. Sr Raúl CASTRO RUZ

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs María de los Angeles Flórez Prida
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate (2/12/2010)

Permanent Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M6.34 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.34.13
Fax: 01.45.67.47.41
E-mail: dl.cuba@unesco-delegations.org
Web site: http://embacuba.cubaminrex.cu/unesco

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidente: Sr. Juan Antonio Fernandez Palacios
Secretaria Permanente: Sra. Alicia Gonzalez

Comisión Nacional Cubana para la UNESCO
Ave. Kohly n° 151, esq. 32 Nuevo Vedado La Habana Cuba
Telephone: (53.7) 53 21 03; (53.7) 881-00 88; (53.7) 881-02 13
Fax: (53.7) 53 21 04
E-mail: cncu@cncu.minrex.gov.cu; alicia@cncu.minrex.gov.cu (SG); juantonio@cncu.minrex.gov.cu (Pt)
Web site: http://cuba.comnat.unesco.org

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Orestes Ferrara Marino	1954-1956	40-45
Member	Mr José Agustín Martinez	1956	45
Member	Mr Juan Marinello	1974-1977	96-101
Member	Mr Julio Le Riverend	1977-1978	102-105
Member	Mr Alfredo Guevara	1980-1985	111-122
Member	Mr Alfredo Guevara	1987-1991	128-137
Representative		1995-1999	149-157
Representative		2001-2005	163-172
Representative		2007- 2009	178-182
Representative		2009- 2011	183-187

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


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2011)


• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  Vice-President : Mr Arnaldo Fuxa

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Rapporteur : Ms Margarita Ruiz Brandi

Member (Term expires : 2012)

• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Member (Term expires : 2013)

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Cuban painter Amelia Peláez del Casal (5 January 1996).

Centenary of the death of the Cuban literary critic Manuel de la Cruz Fernández (19 February 1996).

Centenary of the death of the Cuban naturalist Juan Cristóbal Gundlach (15 March 1996).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Cuban philosopher José Antonio Saco (7 May 1997).

Centenary of the birth of the Cuban writer Juan Marinello Vidaurreta (2 November 1998).

Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the National Ballet of Cuba (1998-1999).

Hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Agronomic Studies in Cuba (8 March 2000)

150th anniversary of the birth of José Martí (2003)

100th anniversary of the birth of Wilfredo Lam (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Nicolás Guillén (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Alejo Carpentier Valmont (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the birth of Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer (1906-1940) (2006)

100th anniversary of the creation of the National Library José Marti’s magazine (1909) (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of José Lezama Lima, writer (1910-1976) (2010)