Romania

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 27 July 1956

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République: Son Exc. M. Traian BASESCU
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Emil BOC

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Nicolae Manolescu-Apolzan
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (11/22/2006)

Permanent Delegation of Romania to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau MS1.16 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.26.71
Fax: 01.47.34.91.38
E-mail: dl.roumanie@unesco.org
Web site: http://www.unesco.org/delegates/romania/

National Commission for UNESCO

Présidente: Mme Ecaterina Andronescu *
Secrétaire général: M. Serban Ursu

Commission nationale de Roumanie pour l'UNESCO
8, Anton Cehov, Sector 1 RO - 011998 BUCHAREST ROUMANIE
Telephone: (40-21) 231 13 33
Fax: (40-21) 230-7636
E-mail: cnr@cnr-unesco.ro; serban@cnr-unesco.ro (SG)
Web site: http://www.cnr-unesco.ro

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Tudor Vianu	1962-1964	64-67
Member	Mr Athanase Joja	1964-1966	67-74
Member	Mr André Otetea	1966-1968	74-80
Member	Mr Valentin Lipatti	1976-1980	101-110
Member/Representative	Mr Dan Haulica	1991-1995	138-147
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 : 2013)


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


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

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Advisory Board of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
  Member : Prof. Andrei Marga

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara (1996).

Eleven hundredth anniversary of the documentary evidence of Romanian States in Transylvania (1996/1997).

Five hundredth anniversary of the construction of the Neamt monastery (1997).

Centenary of the birth of the Romanian writer George Calinescu (19 June 1999).

Three hundredth anniversary of the publication of the original of the first Romanian philosophical essay 'The Divan or the Quarrel of the Wise Man with the World' by Dimitrie Cantemir (1998).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Mihail Eminescu (15 January 2000)

Fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dinu Lipatti (2 December 2000)

150th anniversary of the birth of Ion Luca Caragiale (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Alexandre Ciucurenco (2003)

100th anniversary of the birth of Dumitru Staniloae (2003)

500th anniversary of the death of Stefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) (2004)Web site

50th anniversary of the death of George Enescu (2005)

100th anniversary of the first flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft propelled by an on-board engine, produced and earlier used by the Wright Brothers in their 1903 flight, performed by Traian Vuia, inventor (1906) (2006)

50th anniversary of the death of Constantin Brancusi (Brâncusi), sculptor (1876-1957) (2007)

100th anniversary of the birth of Grigore Moisil, mathematician and philosopher (1906-1973) (2006)

200th anniversary of the birth of the Orthodox Archbishop Andrei Saguna (1808- 1873) (2008)

100th anniversary of the birth of Eugène Ionesco, dramatist and writer (1909- 1994) Supported by France (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of Serban Titeica, physicist and educationalist (1908-1986) (2008)

300th anniversary of the death of Nicolae Spataru Milescu, diplomat, philologist, philosopher, geographer, ethnographer, theologian and writer (1636-1708) Supported by the Republic of Moldova (2008)