Czech Republic

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 22 February 1993

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Vaclav KLAUS
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Mirek TOPOLANEK

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Petr Janyska
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (9/21/2006)

Permanent Delegation of the Czech Republic to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M8.49 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.35.35
Fax: 01.42.73.21.80
E-mail: dl.czech@unesco.org
Web site: http://www.mzv.cz/unesco.paris

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairperson: Prof Helena Illnerova
Secretary-General: Mr Milan Kuna

Czech Commission for UNESCO (Ceska Komise pro UNESCO)
Rytírská 31 110 00 PRAHA 1 CZECH REPUBLIC
Telephone: (420) 221.610.126
Fax: (420) 221.610.122
E-mail: unesco@mzv.cz; milan_kuna@mzv.cz (SG);
Web site: http://www.mzv.cz/unesco (in Czech and English)

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Representative		1995-1999	148-157
Representative		2003-2007	168-177

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 Committee of the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo
  Member


• 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 : 36th General Conference)


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


• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

Two hundredth anniversary of the invention of lithography in the Czech Republic (1996).

Thousandth anniversary of the death of the Czech intellectual Aldabert (Vojtech) Slavnikovec, a man of great distinction of mind (23 April 1997).

Six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Charles University in the Czech Republic (7 April 1998).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Czech philosopher and historian František Palacký (14 June 1998).

Three hundredth anniversary of the invention of the pianoforte in Florence by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1998).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vincenc Priessnitz, considered the founder of hydrotherapy (4 October 1999).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth and hundredth anniversary of the death of Zdenek Fibich (2000)

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Tomas Masaryk (2000)

Seven hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Royal Code of Mines (2000)

300th anniversary of the foundation of Wroclaw University (2002)

250th anniversary of the birth of Josef Dobrovský (2003)

150th anniversary of the birth of Otakar Ševcík (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Jan Calábek (2003)

100th anniversary of the death of Antonín Dvorák (2004)Web site

150th anniversary of the birth of Leoš Janacek and the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Jenufa (2004)Web site

300th anniversary of the death of Jirí Josef Kamel, botanist (1661-1706) (2006)

150th anniversary of the establishment of Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov (1856) (2006)

100th anniversary of the birth of Jaroslav Ježek, composer (1906-1942) (2006)

400th anniversary of the death of Jehuda Löw ben Bezalel, writer and philosopher (1520(1512?)-1609) (2009)

100th anniversary of the death of Josef Hlávka, architect (1831-1908) Supported by Austria (2008)

50th anniversary of the death of Bohuslav Martinu, composer (1890-1959) (2009)