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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
MemberMr Manuel Martínez Báez1946-19501-21
MemberMr Antonio Castro Leal1950-195422-39
MemberMr Pedro de Alba1958-196053-57
MemberMr Silvio Zavala1960-196657-74
MemberMr Manuel Alcalá1968-197181-87
MemberMr Francisco Cuevas Cancino1971-197487-95
MemberMr Victor Bravo Ahuja1976-1977101-103
MemberMr Porfirio Muñoz Ledo1977102-103
MemberMr Luis Echeverría1977-1980103-110
MemberMr Jesús Reyes Heroles1983-1985118-120
MemberMr Miguel González Avelar1985-1987121-127
MemberMr Manuel Bartlett Diaz1989-1992133-199
MemberMr Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon1992-1993139-142
Representative1993-2003143-167
Representative2005-2009172 - 181
Representative2007- 2009178-182
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)

 
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