Mauritius

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 25 October 1968

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président: The Right Hon. Sir Anerood JUGNAUTH
Prime Minister: Dr The Hon. Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Jacques Chasteau de Balyon
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mauritius to France, Permanent Delegate (designate)

Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Mauritius to UNESCO
Ambassade de la République de Maurice 127, rue de Tocqueville 75017 Paris
Telephone: 01.42.27.30.19
Fax: 01.40.53.02.91
01.47.66.50.34
E-mail: paris@amb-maurice.fr

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairman: Mr Vasant Kumar Bunwaree
Deputy Chairperson: Hon. Motee Ramdass*
Deputy Chairperson: Hon. Sanyeet Fowdur*
Assistant Secretary-general: Mrs Chandraprabha Dookhony

Mauritius National Commission for UNESCO
c/o Ministry of Education, Culture and Human Resources Level 2 - IVTB House Pont Fer - Phoenix REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS Indian Ocean
Telephone: (230) 601 52 14; (230) 601 52 22 (SecGen); (230) 601 52 23; (230) 601 53 08 (Assistant SecGen)
Fax: (230) 697 92 51 (SecGen); (230) 686 25 32 (Assistant SecGen)
E-mail: unescodesk@mail.gov.mu;

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Louis Régis Chaperon	1976-1977	101-102
Member	Mr Keharsingh Jagatsingh	1977-1980	102-110
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


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

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


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

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the death of the Mauritian writer and administrator Sir Auguste Célicourt Antelme (6 June 1999).

Centenary of the birth of the Mauritian writer Michel Arthur Martial (28 September 1999).