Ukraine

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 12 May 1954

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President of Ukraine: H.E. Mr Viktor YANUKOVYCH
Premier ministre: H.E. Mr Mykola AZAROV

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Oleksandr Kupchyshyn
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France Permanent Delegate (7/15/2010)

Permanent Delegation of UKRAINE to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau MS1.09 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.26.61
Fax: 01.45.68.26.61
01.43.06.02.94
E-mail: dl.ukraine@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mr Ruslan Demchenko
Vice President: Mr Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi
Secretary General: Ms Roksolana Ivanchenko

National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1, Mykhailivska Square UA - 01018 KYIV UKRAINE
Telephone: (380.44) 238 16 91; (380.44) 238 15 37
Fax: (380.44) 238 18 36
E-mail: ukgs@mfa.gov.ua; unesco@mfa.gov.ua;
Web site: http://unesco.org.ua/

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Gleb N. Tsvetkov	1980-1985	111-122
Representative		1995-1999	148-156
Representative		2001-2005	163-172

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 : 36th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  Member : MALYUKOVA Inna Gennadievna

Celebration of anniversaries

Four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian man of culture Petro Mohyla (December 1996).

Centenary of the birth of the Ukrainian scientist and explorer, pioneer in space technology, Yuri Kondratiuk (O. Sharguei) (21 June 1997).

Centenary of the birth of the Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Sosiura (6 January 1998).

Centenary of the foundation of the Polytechnical Institute of Kiev - Ukraine Technical University (31 August 1998).

One thousand one hundredth anniversary of the Ukrainian city of Halich (1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Sayenko (1998).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Michaïlo Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (24 September 2001)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ivan S. Kozlovskiy (11 March 2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Smakula (9 September 2000)

100th anniversary of the birth of David Ferdman (2003)

100th anniversary of the birth of Serge Lifar (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the birth of Sergiy Vsekhsviatsky (2005)

150th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Horbachevsky (2004)Web site

150th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Franko, writer (1856-1916) (2006)

100th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Bahriany, writer (1906-1963) (2006)

200th anniversary of the birth of N.V. Gogol, writer (1809-1852) Russian Federation and Ukraine (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of Lev D. Landau, physicist (1908-1968) Proposed by Russian Federation and Ukraine (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Primachenko, painter (1908-1997) (2008)

1000th anniversary of the foundation of St Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv (1011) (2011)

150th anniversary of the death of Taras Shevchenko, writer (1814-1861) (2011)

500th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Fyodorov, founder of book printing in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine (1510-1583) (Ukraine, with the support of the Russian Federation and Belarus) (2010)