France

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Nicolas SARKOZY
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. François FILLON

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Rama Yade
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (1/20/2011)

Permanent Delegation of the French Republic to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M8.14 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.35.47
01.45.68.35.48
01.45.68.35.49
Fax: 01.43.17.56.41
E-mail: dl.france@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: M. Jean Audouze
Secrétaire général: M. William Fabvre

Commission nationale française pour l'UNESCO
57, Boulevard des Invalides 75700 PARIS 07 SP FRANCE
Telephone: +33(0)1.53.69.35.65 (Sec. Gen.) ; +33(0)1.53.69.39.55 (Secrétariat)
Fax: +33(0)1.53.69.32.23
E-mail: william.fabvre@diplomatie.gouv.fr (SG); commissionfrance.unesco@diplomatie.gouv.fr; janine.d-artois@diplomatie.gouv.fr;
Web site: http://www.unesco.fr

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Membre	M. Pierre Auger	1946-1948	1-6
Membre	M. Roger Seydoux	1948-1952	6-31
Membre	M. Henri Laugier	1952-1958	34-52
Membre	M. Julien Cain	1958-1966	53-74
Membre	M. Etienne Dennery	1966-1974	75-95
Membre	M. Jean de Broglie	1974-1976	96-101
Membre	M. François Valéry	1977-1983	103-117
Membre	M. Jean-Pierre Cot	1983-1984	118-120
Membre	Mme Jacqueline Baudrier	1984-1985	120-121
Membre	Mme Gisèle Halimi	1985-1987	121-127
Membre	Mme Marie-Claude Cabana	1987-1991	127-137
Membre	M. Jean-Pierre Angremy	1991-1993	183-143
Representative		1994-2007	144-177
Vice-Chairperson	Mr Jean Musitelli	1997-1999	153-155
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)


• Executive Committee of the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo
  Member


• Headquarters Committee
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 34th session

Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

• Conciliation and Good Offices Commission Responsible for Seeking the Settlement of any Disputes which may arise between States Parties to the Convention against Discrimination in Education
  Member : Mr Pierre-Michel Eisemann (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Committee on World Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (Intergovernmental Committee of the Rome Convention)
  President : Mrs Hélène de Montluc

Member

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

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (former UNESCO Institute for Education, UIE)
  Vice-Chairperson : Ms Suzy HALIMI (Term expires : 31 December 2010)


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
  Elected Member : Mr Jean-Jacques Paul (Term expires : December 2013)


• Advisory Board of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
  Member : Prof. Suzy Halimi


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  Member : Bernard CORNU

Celebration of anniversaries

Four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the French philosopher René Descartes (1996).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Corot (1996).

Four hundredth anniversary of the Edict of Nantes (1998).

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 2000)

Three hundredth anniversary of the death of André Le Nôtre (2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of André Malraux (3 November 2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (9 September 2000)

One thousand two hundredth anniversary of the Carolingian Renaissance (2000)

200th anniversary of the birth of Ignacio Domeyko (2002)

200th anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz (2003)

200th anniversary of the birth of Alexandre Dumas (père) (2002)

200th anniversary of the birth of Victor Hugo (2002)

200th anniversary of the birth of George Sand (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the death of Jules Verne (2005)

300th anniversary of the translation of the “Thousand and One Nights” by Antoine Galland (2004)Web site

200th anniversary of the birth of Victor Schoelcher (2004)Web site

300th anniversary of the birth of Georges-Louis Leclerc, known as (comte de) Buffon (1707-1788) (2007)

100th anniversary of the death of Paul Cézanne, painter (1839-1906) (2006)

50th anniversary of the death of Irène Joliot-Curie, physicist (1897-1956) (2006)

100th anniversary of the death of Henri Becquerel, physicist (1852-1908) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, composer (1908-1992) (2008)

200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, professor (1809-1852) (2009)

150th anniversary of the birth of Emile Durkheim, sociologist (1858-1917) (2008)

500th anniversary of the publication of The Praise of Folly by Erasmus (1511) (2011)

1100th anniversary of the foundation of the Abbey of Cluny (910) (2010)