The Organization proposes to contribute to the maintenance of peace and security by strengthening, through education, science and culture, collaboration among nations, in order to ensure universal respect for justice, the law, and the rights of And fundamental freedoms for all, irrespective of race, sex, language or religion, that the Charter of the United Nations recognizes to all peoples.

2. For these purposes, the Organization shall:

A.

Promotes knowledge and mutual understanding of nations by assisting the information bodies of the masses, recommends such international agreements as it deems appropriate to facilitate the free movement of ideas, by The word and the image;

B.

Prints a strong impulse to popular education and the diffusion of culture:

By working with Member States who so wish to help them develop their educational activities;

Establishing the cooperation of nations in order to gradually achieve the ideal of an equal opportunity of education for all, without distinction as to race, sex or economic or social condition;

Suggesting appropriate methods of education to prepare children around the world for the responsibilities of the free man;

C.

Support for the maintenance, advancement and dissemination of knowledge:

Ensuring the conservation and protection of the universal heritage of books, works of art and other monuments of historical or scientific interest, and by recommending to the peoples concerned international conventions to that effect;

By encouraging cooperation among nations in all branches of intellectual activity, the international exchange of representatives of education, science and culture, and the exchange of publications, works of art, Laboratory and any useful documentation;

By facilitating by appropriate methods of international cooperation the access of all peoples to what each of them publishes.

3. Wishing to assure the Member States of this Organization of the independence, integrity and diversity of their cultures and education systems, the Organization is prohibited from intervening in any material essentially Of their internal jurisdiction.

Member States of the United Nations shall have the right to be a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

2. Subject to the terms of the Agreement to be entered into between this Organization and the United Nations, approved in accordance with Art. X of this Convention, non-member States of the United Nations may be admitted as members of the Organization on the recommendation of the Executive Board, by the General Conference voting by a two-thirds majority.

3. ¹ Territories or groups of territories which do not themselves assume responsibility for the conduct of their external relations may be admitted as associate members of the General Conference by a two-thirds majority of the members present And voting, if that admission has been requested, on behalf of each of those territories or groups of territories, by the Member State or the authority, whoever it may be, who bears the responsibility for the conduct of its external relations. The nature and extent of the rights and obligations of associate members shall be determined by the General Conference.

4. ² The member States of the Organization suspended from the exercise of their rights and privileges of members of the United Nations shall, at the request of the United Nations, be suspended from the rights and privileges inherent in membership.

5. ³ The member States of the Organization shall cease ipso facto membership if they are excluded from the United Nations.

6. ⁴ Any Member State or associate member of the Organization may withdraw from the Organization after notice to the Director General. The withdrawal takes effect on December 31 of the year following the year in which the notice was given. It shall in no way affect the financial obligations of the State concerned towards the Organization on the date on which the withdrawal takes effect. In the event of the withdrawal of an associate member, the opinion shall be given in its name by the Member State or the authority, whoever it may be, who assumes responsibility for its international relations.

The Organization shall comprise a General Conference, an Executive Board and a Secretariat.

Composition

The General Conference shall consist of representatives of the Member States of the Organization. The Government of each Member State shall appoint no more than five representatives chosen after consultation with the National Committee, if any, or with educational, scientific and cultural institutions and bodies.

B. Functions

2. ¹ The General Conference shall determine the Organization's direction and general course of action. It decides on the programmes submitted by the Executive Council.

3. ² The General Conference shall convene, in accordance with the regulations established by the General Conference, international conferences of States on education, science, the humanities or the dissemination of knowledge; non-governmental conferences on the same May be convened by the General Conference or by the Executive Council in accordance with the rules established by the Conference.

4. When deciding on the adoption of projects to be submitted to Member States, the General Conference must distinguish between recommendations to Member States and international conventions to be ratified by Member States. In the first case, the simple majority is sufficient; in the second case, a two-thirds majority is required. Each Member State shall submit the recommendations or conventions to the competent national authorities within one year from the close of the session of the General Conference in which they have been adopted.

5. ³ Subject to the provisions of Art. V, 5c, the General Conference advises the United Nations on the educational, scientific and cultural aspects of the issues of concern to the United Nations, in accordance with the conditions and procedures adopted by the United Nations The competent authorities of both organisations.

6. ⁴ The General Conference shall receive and consider reports which are addressed to the Organization by member States on the implementation of the recommendations and conventions referred to in par. 4 above or, if so decided, the analytical summaries of those reports.

The General Conference shall elect the members of the Executive Board; it shall appoint the Director General on presentation of the Executive Board.

C. ⁵ Vote

8. A. ⁶

Each Member State shall have one vote at the General Conference. Decisions shall be taken by a simple majority, except in cases where the provisions of this Convention or the rules of procedure of the General Conference require a two-thirds majority. By a majority, the majority of the members present and voting must be heard.

B.

A Member State may not participate in the votes of the General Conference if the amount owed by the Member State in respect of its contributions exceeds the amount of the financial contribution to be paid for the current year and for the calendar year Which immediately preceded it.

C.

The General Conference may nevertheless authorise that Member State to take part in the vote if it finds that the failure is due to circumstances beyond the control of that Member State.

D. ⁷ Procedure

9. A.

The General Conference shall meet every two years in ordinary session. It may meet in extraordinary session, or if it so decides, either upon convocation by the Executive Board or upon request by at least one third of the member States.

B.

During each session, the Conference shall determine the seat of the next ordinary session. The seat of any special session shall be fixed by the General Conference if it has taken the initiative of that session, and by the Executive Council in any other case.

10. The General Conference shall adopt its rules of procedure. It shall elect, at each session, its President and its Bureau.

The General Conference shall establish the special and technical committees and other subsidiary bodies that may be required to carry out its task.

12. Arrangements shall be made for the public to be able to attend the proceedings, subject to the provisions of the rules of procedure.

E. Observers

13. The General Conference, voting by a two-thirds majority, on the recommendation of the Executive Board, and subject to the rules of procedure, may invite as observers to specific sessions of the Conference or its committees, Representatives of international organizations, including those referred to in s. XI, para. 4.

14. Where the Executive Council has admitted such international non-governmental or semi-governmental organizations to arrangements for consultations, in accordance with the procedure set out in Art. XI, para. 4, these organizations are invited to send observers to the sessions of the General Conference and its committees.

F. Transitional Provision

15. ⁸ Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 9.a of this article, the General Conference will hold its twenty-second session in the third year following its twenty-first session.

Composition

1. ¹ The Executive Council shall be composed of fifty-one members elected by the General Conference from among the delegates appointed by the Member States; each of them shall represent the Government of the State of which he is a national. The President of the General Conference shall sit in this capacity at the Executive Council with a consultative vote.

2. In the election of the members of the Executive Board, the General Conference shall endeavour to include persons with competence in the field of arts, letters, science, education and the dissemination of thought. The experience and competence necessary to fulfil the administrative and executive functions of the Council. It will also take into account the diversity of cultures and equitable geographical distribution. There can never be at the same time in the Executive Council more than one national of the same Member State, the President of the Conference shall not take into account.

3. ² The members of the Executive Council shall retain their functions since the end of the session of the General Conference, which elected them until the end of the second subsequent ordinary session of the General Conference. They are not immediately eligible for re-election for a second term. The General Conference shall, at each of its ordinary sessions, elect the number of members required to fill vacancies at the end of the session.

4. ³ A.

In the event of the death of one of the members or resignations submitted by one of the members, the Executive Council shall replace for the remainder of the term of office, upon nomination by the Government of the State as represented by The former member.

B.

The Government submitting the application and the Executive Board shall take into account the considerations set out in s. 2 above.

C.

Where exceptional circumstances arise which, in the opinion of the State represented, render the replacement of its representative indispensable, and even if the representative does not submit his resignation, it shall be carried out as provided for in para. (a).

B. Functions

5. ⁴ A.

The Executive Board shall prepare the agenda for the meetings of the General Conference. It shall consider the programme of work of the Organization and the corresponding budget estimates submitted to it by the Director General, in accordance with subs. 3 of Art. VI, and submits them to the General Conference by making any recommendations that it considers appropriate.

B.

The Executive Board, acting under the authority of the General Conference, shall be responsible for the implementation of the programme adopted by the Conference. In accordance with the decisions of the General Conference and taking into account the circumstances that would arise between two ordinary sessions of the General Conference, the Executive Board shall take all appropriate steps to ensure efficient and effective implementation Programme by the Director-General.

C.

Between two ordinary sessions of the General Conference, the Council may exercise the advisory functions to the United Nations, as provided for in art. IV, by 5, provided that the matter which is the subject of the consultation has been dealt with, in principle, by the Conference, or that the solution to be given to it makes decisions of the Conference.

6. The Executive Board recommends to the General Conference the admission of new Members to the Organization.

7. Subject to the decisions of the General Conference, the Executive Board shall establish its rules of procedure. He elects, among his members, his office.

The Executive Board shall meet in ordinary session at least twice a year; it may meet in extraordinary session upon convocation by its President on its own initiative, or at the request of six members of the Council.

9. ⁵ The President of the Executive Board shall submit, on behalf of the Executive Board, at each ordinary session of the General Conference, with or without comments, the reports on the activities of the Organization which the Director General shall establish in accordance with the Provisions of s. VI, 3b.

10. The Executive Board shall take all appropriate steps to consult with representatives of international bodies or qualified persons who deal with matters within its competence.

11. ⁶ In the interval of the sessions of the General Conference, the Executive Council may request advisory opinions to the International Court of Justice on the legal issues that would arise in the course of the activities of the Organization.

12. ⁷ Although the members of the Executive Board are the representatives of their respective governments, they exercise the powers delegated to them by the General Conference on behalf of the Conference as a whole.

C. Transitional provisions

13. ⁸ Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 3 of this Article,

A.

The members of the Executive Board elected before the seventeenth session of the General Conference shall retain their functions until the expiration of the mandate for which they were elected.

B.

The members of the Executive Board, who, prior to the seventeenth session of the General Conference, have been appointed by the Council in accordance with the provisions of s. 4 of this article, replacing the four-year term members, will be eligible for re-election for a second four-year term.

The Secretariat shall be composed of a Director General and the staff recognised as necessary.

2. The Director General shall be nominated by the Executive Board and appointed by the General Conference for a period of six years, subject to the conditions to be approved by the Conference. His appointment is renewable. The Director General is the highest official of the Organization.

3. ¹ A.

The Director General or, failing that, the replacement appointed by him shall take part, without the right to vote, at all meetings of the General Conference, the Executive Council and the committees of the Organization. It formulates proposals for the measures to be taken by the Conference and the Council and prepares, for submission to the Council, a draft programme of work for the Organization, together with the corresponding budget estimates.

B.

The Director General shall prepare and communicate to the Member States and the Executive Council periodic reports on the work of the Organization. The General Conference shall determine the periods to be covered by such reports.

4. The Director General shall appoint the staff of the Secretariat in accordance with the Staff Regulations, which shall be submitted to the General Conference for approval. Subject to the highest standards of integrity, efficiency and technical competence, staff shall be recruited on as wide a geographical basis as possible.

5. The responsibilities of the Director General and the staff are exclusively international in character. In the performance of their duties, they shall neither seek nor receive instructions from any Government or from any foreign authority in the Organization. They shall refrain from any act which may prejudice their position as international civil servants. All Member States of the Organization undertake to respect the international character of the functions of the Director General and staff and not to seek to influence them in the performance of their duties.

6. None of the provisions of this article shall prevent the Organization from passing through, within the framework of the United Nations, special agreements for the establishment of common services and the recruitment of common staff, as well as Exchange of personnel.

Transitional Provision

7. ² Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 2 of this Article, the Director-General proposed by the Executive Council and appointed by the General Conference in 1980 shall carry out his duties for a period of seven years.

Each Member State shall make appropriate arrangements for its particular situation in order to associate the main national groups with the work of the Organization with an interest in the problems of education, scientific research and culture, Preference by setting up a National Commission where the Government and these different groups will be represented.

2. In the countries where there are, the national commissions or national cooperation bodies shall have an advisory role to their national delegation to the General Conference and to their Government for all problems Relating to the Organization. They serve as the focal point for all matters of interest to the Organization.

(3) On the request of a Member State, the Organization may delegate, on a temporary or permanent basis, to the National Commission of that State, a member of its Secretariat to cooperate in the work of that Commission.

Each Member State shall send to the Organization, on the dates and in the form to be determined by the General Conference, reports on the laws, regulations and statistics relating to its institutions and its activities in the order of education, science And the follow-up to the recommendations and conventions referred to in Art. IV, para. 4.

The budget is administered by the Organization.

2. The General Conference shall approve the budget definitively and shall determine the financial participation of each Member State, subject to the provisions which may be provided for in this matter by the Convention with the Organization of the Nations Pursuant to Art. X of this Convention.

3. The Director General may, with the approval of the Executive Board, receive directly any donations, bequests and grants from Governments, public or private institutions, associations or individuals.

The Organization shall be bound, as soon as possible, to the United Nations. It shall constitute one of the specialized agencies provided for in Art. 57 of the Charter of the United Nations, these relations shall be the subject of an agreement with the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Art. 63 of the Charter. This agreement shall be submitted for approval to the General Conference of this Organization. It will have to provide the means to establish effective cooperation between the two Organisations in the pursuit of their common purposes. At the same time, it shall devote the autonomy of the Organization in the field of its particular competence, as defined in this Convention. This agreement may, inter alia, contain any provisions concerning the approval of the budget and the financing of the Organization by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

The Organization may cooperate with other specialized intergovernmental organizations and institutions, whose tasks and activities are in harmony with its own. To this end, the Director General may, under the high authority of the Executive Council, establish effective relations with these organisations and institutions and constitute the joint committees deemed necessary for effective cooperation. Any agreement with these specialized agencies or institutions will be subject to the approval of the Executive Board.

(2) Whenever the General Conference and the competent authorities of any other specialized intergovernmental organization or institution pursuing similar activities and objectives deem it desirable to transfer to the Organization The resources and functions of the said organisation or institution, the Director General may, subject to the approval of the Conference, conclude, to the satisfaction of both parties, the necessary agreements.

(3) The Organization may, by mutual agreement with other intergovernmental organizations, make appropriate arrangements to ensure representation at their respective meetings.

4. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization may take all appropriate steps to facilitate consultations and ensure cooperation with private international organizations dealing with matters that Enter his field. It may invite them to undertake certain specific tasks which fall within their competence. Such cooperation may also take the form of an appropriate participation of representatives of such organizations in the work of advisory committees established by the General Conference.

The provisions of Art. 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations relating to the legal status of that Organization, to its privileges and immunities, shall also apply to this Organization.

1. The draft amendments to this Convention shall take effect once they have been adopted by the General Conference by a two-thirds majority; nevertheless, amendments leading to fundamental changes in the aims of The Organisation or new obligations for Member States will then have to be accepted by two-thirds of the Member States before coming into force. The text of the draft amendments will be communicated to the Member States by the Director General at least six months before being submitted to the General Conference for consideration.

2. The General Conference shall have the power to adopt by a two-thirds majority a regulation for the application of the provisions of this Article.

The English and French texts of this Convention shall be equally authentic.

2. All questions and disputes relating to the interpretation of this Convention shall be submitted for decision to the International Court of Justice or to a arbitral tribunal, as determined by the General Conference in accordance with its Rules of Procedure.

1. This Convention shall be subject to acceptance. The instruments of acceptance shall be deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom.

2. This Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom, where it shall remain open for signature. The signatures may be affixed before or after the deposit of the instruments of acceptance. Acceptance will only be valid if preceded or followed by a signature.

3. This Convention shall enter into force when it has been accepted by twenty of its signatories. Subsequent acceptances shall take effect immediately.

The Government of the United Kingdom shall notify all Members of the United Nations of the receipt of all instruments of acceptance and the date on which the Convention enters into force in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

In witness whereof, The undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Convention in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.

Done at London, 16 November 1945, in a single copy in the English and French languages. Certified true copies will be provided by the Government of the United Kingdom to the Governments of all United Nations Member States.

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