Mexico

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Exmo. Sr. Don Felipe CALDERON

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Carlos de Icaza
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to France, Permanent Delegate (4/21/2010)

Permanent Delegation of Mexico to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M7.45 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.33.55
01.45.68.33.70
01.45.68.34.83
Fax: 01.47.34.92.45
E-mail: dl.mexique@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidente: Sr. Don Alonso Lujambio Irazabal *
Secretario General: Sr. Mario Chacon

Comision Mexicana de Cooperacion con la UNESCO - CONALMEX
Donceles No. 100, 2° piso 06020 Centro Historico MEXICO, D.F. MEXICO
Telephone: (52 55) 36 01 69 40; (52 55) 36 01 69 48;
Fax: (52) 55 53 29 69 43; (52) 55 53 29 69 47;
E-mail: dgri@sep.gob.mx; alonso.lujambio@sep.gob.mx (Pt)
Web site: http://www.sep.gob.mx (Department of Public Education)

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Manuel Martínez Báez	1946-1950	1-21
Member	Mr Antonio Castro Leal	1950-1954	22-39
Member	Mr Pedro de Alba	1958-1960	53-57
Member	Mr Silvio Zavala	1960-1966	57-74
Member	Mr Manuel Alcalá	1968-1971	81-87
Member	Mr Francisco Cuevas Cancino	1971-1974	87-95
Member	Mr Victor Bravo Ahuja	1976-1977	101-103
Member	Mr Porfirio Muñoz Ledo	1977	102-103
Member	Mr Luis Echeverría	1977-1980	103-110
Member	Mr Jesús Reyes Heroles	1983-1985	118-120
Member	Mr Miguel González Avelar	1985-1987	121-127
Member	Mr Manuel Bartlett Diaz	1989-1992	133-199
Member	Mr Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon	1992-1993	139-142
Representative		1993-2003	143-167
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


• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Vice-Chairperson : Mr Polioptro F. Martinez Austria

Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Headquarters Committee
  Bureau Member

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)
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Member (Term expires : 2011)

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  Statistical expert : Ms Sylvia Irene Schmelkes Del Valle (Term expires : 31 December 2013)

Celebration of anniversaries

200th anniversary of the birth of Benito Juárez (1806-1872) (2006)