Bulgaria

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 17 May 1956

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Gueorgui PARVANOV
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Sergei STANISHEV

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

Mrs Vesselina Ivanova
Minister Counsellor, Deputy Permanent Delegate Chargé d'Affaires a.i.

Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Bulgaria to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M5.44/45/46 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.34.02
01.45.68.29.12
01.45.68.33.99
Fax: 01.47.83.34.52
E-mail: dl.rep-bulgarie@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Président: M. Todor Churov *
Vice-président: M. Andrey Tehov
Secrétaire général: M. Alexander Savov

Commission nationale de la République de Bulgarie pour l'UNESCO
Ministère des Affaires étrangères Rue Alexander Jendov, 2 BG - 1040 SOFIA BULGARIE
Telephone: (359-2) 948 22 23 (Sec.gén); (359-2) 873 48 71
Fax: (359-2) 973.31.89; (359-2) 973 33 41
E-mail: tchurov@mfa.government.bg (Pt); asavov@mfa.government.bg (SG)
Web site: http://natcomunesco.mfa.government.bg

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Nikolai Todorov	1972-1976	91-100
Member	Mr Milan Milanov	1985-1989	123-132
Representative		1993-1997	143-152

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


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


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th 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 : Prof. Avram ESKENAZI

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Bulgarian painter Tsanko Ivanov Lavrenov (24 November 1996).

Centenary of the death of the Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov (11 May 1997).

Centenary of the birth of the Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev (1 September 1998).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Bulgarian writer Christo Botev (25 December 1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Bulgarian painter Detchko Ouzounov (22 February 1999).

Six hundredth anniversary of the death of Evtimi of Tarnovo (2001)

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Ivan Vazov (9 July 2000)

100th anniversary of the birth of Lubomir Pipkov (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the birth of Atanas Dalchev (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the death of Marin Drinov, historian (1838-1906) (2006)

100th anniversary of the birth of Emilian Stanev, writer (1907-1979) (2007)

100th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Vaptsarov, poet (1909-1942) (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of Lubomir Krastanov, scientist (1908-1977) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Rostislav Kaishev, scientist and linguist (1908- 2002) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Marin Goleminov, musician (1908-2000) (2008)