Belarus

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 12 May 1954

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Alexander LUKASHENKO
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Syarhey SIDORSKI

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Alexsandr Pavlovsky
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to France, Permanent Delegate (10/28/2008)

Permanent Delegation of Belarus to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO 1, rue Miollis 75015 PARIS
Telephone: 01.45.68.26.59
01.44.14.69.79
Fax: 01.44.14.69.70
E-mail: dl.belarus@unesco.org
france@belembassy.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mr Uladzimir Shchasny
Secrétaire générale: Mme Elena Krasovskaya

Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO
19 Lenina street, 220030 MINSK BELARUS
Telephone: (375.172) 27 33 53
Fax: (375.172) 10 42 50; (375.172) 27 45 21
E-mail: su@mfa.gov.by

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Anatoly Lobanok	1989-1993	133-142
Representative		1999-2001	158-162
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


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2013)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation
  Vice-President

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 2010)

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  Member : Prof. Alexandre ZHUK

Celebration of anniversaries

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

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

200th anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Orda, artist and composer (1807-1883) (2007)

600th anniversary of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest Reserve (2008)

200th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, poet, playwright and actor (1808-1884) (2008)