Poland

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 6 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Bronislaw KOMOROWSKI
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Donald TUSK

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Krzysztof Kocel
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate (9/15/2010)

Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Poland to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau MS2.41 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.29.97
Fax: 01.45.66.59.56
E-mail: dl.pologne@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Président: Prof. Jerzy Kloczowski
Secrétaire général: M. Slawomir Ratajski
Secrétaire générale adjointe: Mme Aleksandra Waclawczyk

Commission nationale polonaise pour l'UNESCO
Palac Kultury i Nauki, 7 P Pl. Defilad 1 00-901 Warsaw Poland
Telephone: (48-22) 620.33.55; (48-22) 624.24.96; (48-22) 620.33.62;
Fax: (48-22) 620.33.62
E-mail: komitet@unesco.pl; s.ratajski@unesco.pl (SG)
Web site: http://www.unesco.pl

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Marian Falski	1946-1947	1-4
Member	Mr Stanislaw Arnold	1947-1950	5-21
Member	Mr Stefan Wierblowski	1956-1964	46-68
Member	Ms Eugenia Krassowska	1976-1980	101-110
Member	Mr Kazimierz Zygulski	1987-1990	128-135
Member	Mr Jerzy Kloczowski	1990-1991	135-137
Representative		1993-1997	143-152
Representative		1999-2003	158-167
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 : 2013)

Other intergovernmental organs


• 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

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Advisory Board of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
  Member : Prof. Andrzej K. Kozminski

Celebration of anniversaries

Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Polish patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko (4 February 1996).

Centenary of the birth of the Polish writer Jozef Czapski (3 April 1996).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (24 December 1998).

Centenary of the discovery of radium and polonium by Pierre Curie and Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1998).

One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Polish composer and pianist Fryderyk Chopin (1999).

300th anniversary of the foundation of Wroclaw University (2002)

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

100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Gombrowicz (2004)Web site

150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, writer (1857-1924) (2007)

100th anniversary of the birth of Jerzy Giedroyc, writer (1906-2000) (2006)

50th anniversary of the beginning of Jerzy Grotowski’s artistic work by the creation of the Laboratory Theatre (1959) (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of Czeslaw Milosz, writer (1911-2004) (Lithuania and Poland) (2011)

150th anniversary of the birth of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist and politician (1860-1941) (2010)

200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin, composer (1810-1849) (Poland, with the support of France) (2010)