Greece

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Karolos PAPOULIAS
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Costas CARAMANLIS

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr George Anastassopoulos
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (1/26/2005)

Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M2.35/37 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.29.82
Fax: 01.43.06.00.30
E-mail: dl.grece@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Ms Maria Ekaterini Papachristopoulou-Tzitzikosta
Vice Chairperson: Mrs Theano Demesticha
Assistant Secretary-General: Mrs Christina Boulakaki

Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO
3, Akadimias St. 100 27 Athens Greece
Telephone: (30.210) 368 23 85 (Pres.); Secretariat: (30.210) 368 23 74; (30.210) 368 23 96; (30.210) 368 23 86; (30.210) 368 23 98; (30.210) 368 23 99
Fax: (30.210) 368 23 84
E-mail: unescogr@mfa.gr;
Web site: www.unesco-hellas.gr

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Membre	M. Alexander Photiades	1946-1951	1-26
Membre	M. Georges Averoff	1956-1964	46-68
Membre	M. Dimitri Cosmadopoulos	1983-1987	118-127
Representative		1999-2003	158-167

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 : 2011)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


• 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 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


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Member (Term expires : 2011)

Celebration of anniversaries

Two hundredth anniversary of the death of the Greek poet Constantin Rhigas - known as Pheraios (1998).