Bulgaria marks 65 years of membership in UNESCO

May 17, 2021 marks the 65th anniversary of Bulgaria's membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO.

Since its accession on May 17, 1956, Bulgaria has shared and worked actively for the realisation of the noble ideals of UNESCO and has become a reliable partner for the implementation of the main goals and programmes of the organisation.

There is a lot of evidence for this - Bulgaria hosted significant international forums under the auspices of UNESCO, including the only General Conference held outside the organisation's headquarters in Paris in 1985; the country's multiple membership in the UNESCO Executive Board; active participation in the intergovernmental committees of the organisation; numerous implemented projects and initiatives. For a period of eight years - from 2009 to 2017, the Director-General of UNESCO is Irina Bokova.

For 65 years of membership in UNESCO, the priorities of Bulgaria have been developing. If until the democratic changes in 1989 UNESCO was one of the few "windows" to the world, in the first decade after the changes, Bulgaria received assistance from the organisation for the restructuring of important aspects of cultural, educational and scientific policy, while maintaining its active role as initiator of important ideas such as the Sofia Conference on Media Freedom in 1997

Bulgaria's accession to the EU provided additional added value to the country's participation in UNESCO. The Bulgaria-UNESCO Trust Fund was established, through which the country has financed important projects in the organisation's programmes related to the prevention of anti-Semitism through education, the impact of climate change on cultural heritage and others.

The "engine" of the work of UNESCO are both the National Commission, which generates ideas and proposals and coordinates the Bulgarian participation in the programmes of the organisation, and the ministries related to the programmes of UNESCO, the wide network of national committees, clubs and UNESCO associated schools.

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