Cote d'Ivoire sits on the Executive Board of UNESCO
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Elected at the 38th session of the General Conference of Unesco held in November 2015 at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, Côte d'Ivoire Has since participated in many activities.
As a reminder, it was a striking victory for Cote d'Ivoire, which was manifested by the announcement of the election to the executive board of the UN agency on Wednesday 11 November 2015, with a score of 101 votes recorded on A total of about 165 voters, for five candidate countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana and Niger) and only two places available for the West African subregion.
This election is the result of a set of factors, namely a fruitful networking of the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire to UNESCO, without neglecting the satisfactory relations maintained between Mrs. Kandia Camara, National Education and Technical Education (MENET) with its UNESCO peers, or a successful regional coordination between the Ivorian National Commission of UNESCO and all the African National Commissions, As well as a historic meeting of the Secretaries-General of African National Commissions in Abidjan in 2012, with the presence of the Director-General of UNESCO, Mrs IRINA BOKOVA and all her assistants!
This election represents, after all, a symbol of Côte d'Ivoire's return to the world diplomatic scene after the long crisis that it went through until 2011.
MEMORANDUM:
The Executive Board of UNESCO is composed, according to the texts, of fifty-eight Member States. The President of the General Conference shall serve in the capacity of the Executive Board in an advisory capacity. The Member States elected to the Executive Board are hereinafter referred to as the "members" of the Executive Board. Each member of the Executive Council shall appoint one representative. It may also appoint alternates.
The Executive Board shall prepare the agenda of the sessions of the General Conference. It shall study the program of work of the Organization and the corresponding budget estimates submitted to it by the Director-General in accordance with the basic texts. The Executive Board, acting under the authority of the General Conference, shall be responsible to it for the execution of the program adopted by the Conference. In accordance with the decisions of the General Conference and taking into account the circumstances arising between two ordinary sessions of the General Conference, the Executive Board shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the effective and rational execution of the program by the Director-General.
