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UNESCO
UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO is one of 16 legally independent special UNO organisations and has its headquarters in Paris.
UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
F 75352 Paris 07 SP
France
Internet: www.unesco.org
UNESCO's tasks include support for education, science, communication, information and culture. It has its own constitution, which was accepted on November 16th, 1945 in London by representatives of 37 states, and it came into effect on November 4th 1946 after 20 states ratified it. The founding states declared in their constitutional preamble the wisdom gained by the experience of World War II:
... a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind. ...
... since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
On July 11th 1951, West Germany, the first shape of today's Federal Republic, became a member of UNESCO, followed in November 1972 by East Germany. Today, UNESCO boasts more than 190 member states.
The German UNESCO Commission
The German UNESCO Commission is a centre for coordination, connections and advice in all areas of UNESCO's activities. It works on German contributions, helps assign experts, and holds expert conferences and exhibitions.
Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission
Colmantstraße 15
D 53115 Bonn
E-Mail: sekretariat@unesco.de
Web
: www.unesco.de