UNESCO Executive Board: Morocco to Focus on Themes of Africa, Education and Illicit Trafficking in African Cultural Artefacts

02 July 2020 Printable Version

Paris - Morocco will highlight the themes of Africa, education and the illicit trafficking scam in African cultural artefacts at the 209th session of the Executive Board of UNESCO, which opened Thursday at the Organization’s headquarters in Paris.

Morocco is represented at this meeting by the Ambassador, Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Samir Addahre.

The session is chaired by Equatoguinean Agapito Mba Mokuy, in the presence of the Director General of the UN organization, Audrey Azoulay.

The session will focus on the impact of the coronavirus on education, Africa and the illicit trafficking scam in African cultural artefacts.

The Executive Board is one of the three constitutional organs of UNESCO (the others being the General Conference and the Secretariat) and it is elected by the General Conference.

Acting under the authority of the General Conference the Board examines the programme of work for the Organization and corresponding budget estimates submitted to it by the Director-General.

It consists of 58 Member States each with a four-year term of office.

The Executive Board ensures the overall management of UNESCO. It prepares the work of the General Conference and sees that its decisions are properly carried out. The functions and responsibilities of the Executive Board are derived primarily from the Constitution and from rules or directives laid down by the General Conference.