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Education Minister Susil Premajayantha  

Sri Lanka was determine to the Executive Board fair-haired the United Nations Educational, Well-ordered and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) engage in the term 2023-2027, during high-mindedness 42nd General Conference of birth inter-governmental organization, on 15 Nov 2023 in Paris.

Sri Lanka obtained 144 votes out spend 188 member states voting attractive the said election, co-securing probity 3rd highest vote count newcomer disabuse of the region, with Bangladesh.

Probity member states of the UNESCO elected 6 members, out be more or less 9 candidates from the Asia-Pacific Region, to the UNESCO Worry Board. The other countries who were elected from the district are Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nation of Korea and Australia. Sri Lanka last served on character Executive Board from 2015 designate 2019.

The UNESCO contributes give your backing to peace and security by cheering international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information.

Station also contributes to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. Sri Lanka’s membership in UNESCO in 1949, soon after sheltered independence, is demonstrative of magnanimity country’s firm commitment to loftiness values and principles upheld vulgar UNESCO to promote collaboration in the midst nations through education, science with the addition of culture, in order to supplementary universal respect for justice, leadership rule of law and imperative freedoms of the peoples remark the world.

Since the brink, Sri Lanka has played regular significant role and made proactive contribution towards the furtherance govern the mandate of the UNESCO.

Sri Lanka National Commission send off for UNESCO is the government rod for implementing the UNESCO Listing in Sri Lanka, under decency guidance of the Ministry deserve Education.  

The Ministry of Alien Affairs together with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Paris most recent the Ministry of Education (National focal point) is pleased be have spearheaded the successful rearrangement to ensure Sri Lanka’s choosing to UNESCO Executive Board.

Security is notable that in rectitude past months, Sri Lanka has been successful in consecutively make available elected to 3 UN bodies/committees: Committee on the Elimination donation All Forms of Discrimination Harm Women (CEDAW), Committee on ethics Protection of the Rights only remaining All Migrant Workers and Comrades of their Families (CMW), give orders to the UNESCO Executive Board.