Tunisia

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 8 November 1956

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la République tunisienne: Son Exc. M. Zine El Abidine BEN ALI
Premier ministre: S. Exc. M. Mohamed GHANNOUCHI

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Mohamed Raouf Najar
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tunisia to France, Permanent Delegate (10/25/2005)

Permanente Delegation of Tunisia to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M1.44 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01 45 68 29 92
01.45.68.29.93
Fax: 01.40.56.04.22
E-mail: dl.tunisie@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Président: M. Hatem Ben Salem
Secrétaire générale: Mme Fatma Tarhouni

Commission nationale tunisienne pour l'éducation, la science et la culture
22 Rue de Carthagène El Manar I Tunis Tinisie
Telephone: (216) 71 88 97 25 (SG) (216) 71 88 96 75 Standard (216) 71 88 96 74 (216) 71 88 97 04
Fax: (+ 216) 71 88 97 06
E-mail: comnatu@edunet.tn; tarhouni.fatma@minedu.edunet.tn; ahmed.benabdallah@minedu.edunet.tn; hela.souhabi@minedu.edunet.tn;

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Mahmoud Messadi	1974-1978	96-105
Member	Mr Mahmoud Messadi	1980-1985	111-122
Member/Representative	Mr Mongi Chemli	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 : 2011)


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


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Vice-President

Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Vice-President : Prof. Cherif Sammari

Member

• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Vice-President

Member (Term expires : 2009)

Celebration of anniversaries

Eight hundredth anniversary of the death of the philosopher Muhammad ibn Rushd -known as Averroës (1998).

600th anniversary of the death of ‘Abdurrahman Ibn Khaldun, historian (1332-1406) (2006)