PROPOSALS BY MEMBER STATES FOR THE CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARIES IN 2024-2025 WITH WHICH UNESCO COULD BE ASSOCIATED OUTLINE
General Conference
42 nd session, Paris, 2023
42 C/15 2 November 2023 Original: EnglishItem
PROPOSALS BY MEMBER STATES FOR THE CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARIES IN 2024-2025 WITH WHICH UNESCO COULD BE ASSOCIATED OUTLINE
Source: 216 EX/Decision 28 and 217 EX/Decision 32.
Background: In accordance with 195 EX/Decision 25 and 206 EX/Decision 30, the Director-General submitted at the 216th and 217th sessions of the Executive Board the proposals of Member States concerning the celebration of anniversaries deemed to comply with the statutory criteria and procedure.
Purpose: The General Conference is required to make a decision with regard to the recommendations made by the Executive Board concerning the celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO could be associated in 2024-2025, which are contained in 216 EX/Decision 28 and 217 EX/Decision 32.
Decision required: Paragraph 4.
1. In accordance with the statutory procedure for the selection of anniversaries (195 EX/Decision 25 and 206 EX/Decision 30), the Director-General submitted to the Executive Board at its 216th session a list of 46 proposals for inclusion in the timetable of celebrations for 2024-2025 (document 216 EX/28).
2. In accordance with 195 EX/Decision 25 and 206 EX/Decision 30, Member States from under-represented or unrepresented regions were invited to submit new proposals for the period 2024- 2025 and to submit appeals, if they so wished, concerning requests which had been rejected in the first stage of the procedure. The Director-General thus submitted to the Executive Board at its 217th session a list of seven (7) proposals, including revised proposals and new proposals for the celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO could be associated in 2024-2025 (document 217 EX/32).
3. The Executive Board, at its 216th and 217th sessions, recommended that the General Conference select for celebration the anniversaries proposed by Member States and contained in 216 EX/Decision 28 and 217 EX/Decision 32.
Proposed draft resolution
4. In light of the above, the General Conference may wish to adopt a resolution along the following lines:
The General Conference, Having examineddocument 42 C/15, Recalling 195 EX/Decision 25 and 206 EX/Decision 30,
1. Encourages Member States to improve geographical representation and to promote gender equality in order to improve the quality, representativeness and visibility of the programme;
2. Decides that UNESCO will be associated in 2024-2025 with the celebration of the anniversaries contained in the Annex to document 42 C/15;
3. Also decides that any contribution by the Organization to these celebrations shall be financed under the Participation Programme, in accordance with the rules governing that Programme.
42 C/15 Annex
ANNEX CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARIES IN 2024-2025 WITH WHICH UNESCO WILL BE ASSOCIATED (AS RECOMMENDED TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE In 216 EX/DECISION 28 AND 217 EX/DECISION 32; LISTED IN THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF THE ENGLISH NAMES OF THE MEMBER STATES)
1. 100th anniversary of the birth of Yolanda Ortiz, Doctor of Chemistry, active defender of the rights of nature and people, (1923-2019) (Argentina)
2. 100th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Parajanov (Parajanyan), filmmaker (1924-1990) (joint proposal by Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, with the support of Cyprus, France, Italy, Lebanon and Poland)
3. 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Aznavour (Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian) singer, songwriter and actor (1924-2018) (joint proposal by Armenia and France, with the support of Andorra, Italy Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Senegal and the UNESCO Francophone Group)
4. 900th anniversary of Ajami Nakhchivani, architect (1125 – late 12th century) (Azerbaijan, with the support of Türkiye and Turkmenistan)
5. 100th anniversary of the birth of Vasily Vladimirovich Bykov (Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ), writer (1924-2003) (Belarus, with the support of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation and Tajikistan)
6. 200th anniversary of the publication of the first new Bulgarian textbook “The Fish Primer”, a Bulgarian cultural feat in the XIX century published by Petar Beron (1824) (Bulgaria, with the support of France and Romania)
7. 100th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral: The man and his universal work (Cabo Verde with the support of Mozambique and Senegal)
8. 1800th anniversary of the birth of Liu Hui (China with the support of Azerbaijan and Republic of Korea)