Costa Rica

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 19 May 1950

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Excmo. Sr. Don Óscar Arias Sánchez

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Jacques Sagot
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate (1/29/2008)

Permanent Delegation of Costa Rica to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux MS1.42/MS1.43 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: Poste 01.45.68.25.72
Fax: 01.42.73.16.45
E-mail: dl.costa-rica@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidente: Sr. Leonardo Garnier Rímolo*
Secretaria general: Sra. Marta Eugenia Sánchez

Comisión Costarricense de Cooperación con la UNESCO
Casa #3345 (B° Escalante, de la Pulperia La Luz 150 metros norte y 50 metros este San Pedro de Montes de Oca) SAN JOSÉ COSTA RICA
Telephone: (506) 2224.43.20; (506) 2225.51.12; (506) 2283.75.27
Fax: (506) 224.43.20
E-mail: comision@unesco.or.cr;
Web site: http://www.unesco.or.cr

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Enrique Macaya-Lahmann	1966-1974	75-95
Member	Ms Estrella Zeledon de Carazo	1980-1985	111-122
Member	Mr Alvaro Umaña Quesada	1989-1993	133-142
Member	Ms Victoria Guardia de Hernandez	1993	143
Representative		1994-1997	144-152

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 : 35th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

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

Celebration of anniversaries

Fiftieth anniversary of the abolition of the army in Costa Rica (1 December 1998).

Hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of free, compulsory primary education in Costa Rica (10 November 1999).