Spain

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 30 January 1953

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Chef de l'Etat, Roi d'Espagne: Sa majesté le roi Juan Carlos I
Presidente del Gobierno: Excmo. Sr. Don José Luis Rodríguez ZAPATERO

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Ion de la Riva Guzmán de Frutos
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (2/3/2011)

Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Spain to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M6.14 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.33.85 /86
01.45.68.33.87
01.45.68.33.87
Fax: 01.47.83.49.98
E-mail: dl.spain@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Présidente d'honneur: S.A.R. la Infanta Doña Cristina de Borbón y Grecia
Président: Sr. D. Luís Ramallo Massanet
Secretaria General Adjunta: Sra Da Consuelo Vazquez Rueda
Jefa de Programas: Sra Da Alejandra Lopez Garcia
Unidad de Apoyo: Sra Da Maria Pascual Sanchis
Unidad de Apoyo: Sr D Juan Carlos Goris Lamela

Comisión Nacional Española de Cooperación con la UNESCO
Avda. de los Reyes Católicos, 4 28040 Madrid 5a planta, despacho 522 ESPAÑA
Telephone: (34.91) 582.79 37/6 (34.91) 554 35 16 (34.91) 533 96 39
Fax: (34.91) 5351 433
E-mail: hispaunesco@aecid.es
Web site: http://www.aecid.es/unesco

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Juan Estelrich y Artigues	1954-1958	40-50
Member	Mr Joaquín Pérez Villanueva	1958-1960	51-57
Member	Mr Ricardo Díez Hochleitner	1970-1976	86-100
Member	Mr Salvador García de Pruneda	1980-1983	111-117
Member	Mr José Luis Abellan	1983-1985	117-122
Member	Mr Luis Ignacio Ramallo	1987-1991	128-137
Representative		1993-1997	143-152
Vice-Chairperson	Mr Félix Fernández-Shaw	1997	152
Representative		1999-2003	158-167
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)


• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  President : Mr Miguel Arias Estevez

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Headquarters Committee
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


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

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre (26 April 1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca (5 June 1998).

Four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (6 June 1999).

Centenary of the birth of the Spanish writer Rosa Chacel (3 June 1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Spanish writer Dámaso Alonso (22 October 1998).

Four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pedro Calderón de La Barca (2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luis Buñuel (6 February 2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joaquín Rodrigo (22 November 2001)

100th anniversary of the creation of the Committee for the Promotion of Studies and Scientific Research (Junta para ampliación de estudios e investigaciones científicas) (1907) (2007)