Colombia

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 31 October 1947

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Excmo. Sr Don Álvaro URIBE VÉLEZ

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Sonia Sarmiento
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (3/5/2009)

Permanent Delegation of Colombia to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M4.30 1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.28.56
01.45.68.28.70
Fax: 01.43.06.66.09
E-mail: dl.colombia@unesco.org
Web site: http://www.unesco.org/delegates/colombia/

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mr Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde
Secretaria Ejecutiva: Sra. Victoria Gonzalez-Ariza

Comisión Colombiana de Cooperación con la UNESCO

Telephone: (57-1) 3814270 / 3814271 (Directo) (57-1) 3814000 Ext. 1646 / 1655 / 1659 / 1775 (PBX)
Fax: (57.1) 3814747 Ext. 2402
E-mail: comisionunesco@cancilleria.gov.co
Web site: http://colombia.comnat.unesco.org

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Guillermo Nannetti	1948-1950	13-21
Member	Mr Rafael Bernal Jiménez	1950-1954	22-39
Member	Mr Gabriel Betancur Mejía	1970-1974	86-100
Member	Mr Daniel Arango	1980-1985	111-122
Member	Mr Aurelio Caicedo Ayerbe	1985-1989	123-132
Member/Representative	Ms Gloria Pachón de Galán	1991-1995	138-147
Representative		1997-2001	153-162
Representative		2005-2009	172 - 181

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 Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


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


• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Vice-President : Captain Julian Reyna

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


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Representatives of Member States : Javier Botero (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the death of the Colombian poet José Asunción Silva (24 May 1996).

Two hundredth anniversary of the expedition of Alexander von Humboldt to Colombia (7 April 2001)