Guatemala

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 2 January 1950

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Excmo. Sr Don Alvaro COLOM

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Anaisabel Prera
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guatemala to France, Permanent Delegate (10/1/2004)

Permanent Delegation of Guatemala to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M8.05/M8.06 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.29.10
01.42.68.29.09
E-mail: dl.guatemala@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidenta: Sra. Ana Ordoñez de Molina *
Secretaria General: Sra. Sara Peralta de Rodríguez

Comisión Nacional Guatemalteca de Cooperación con la UNESCO
Unidad de Cooperación Nacional e Internacional del Ministerio de Educación (UCONIME) 6a. Calle 1-87 Zona 10, Oficina 16 CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA
Telephone: (502) 360 09 11; (502) 360 25 17; (502) 360 25 49; (502) 360 09 01; (502) 360-3826
Fax: Any of the numbers above & ask for fax signal (direct transmission is not available)
E-mail: speralta@mineduc.gob.gt;
Web site: www.mineduc.gob.gt

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Guillermo Putzeys Alvarez	1978-1983	106-117
Member	Ms Ana Isabel Prera Flores	1989-1993	133-142
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


• 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)


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 34th session

Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Member (Term expires : 2009)

UNESCO institutes and centres


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

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias (19 October 1999).