Ukraine secures seat on UNESCO Executive Board

Ukraine has been elected to the UNESCO Executive Board for 2025-2029.

Source: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)

Quote: "Today, Ukraine has been elected to the UNESCO Executive Board for 2025-2029 with the highest vote count. Together with Romania and Moldova, we outstripped Russia – for the second time in a row Moscow lost the elections and remains excluded from the Board."

Details: Zelenskyy thanked the member states that supported Ukraine's candidacy. He added that, with its partners, Ukraine will use all the opportunities that UNESCO provides "to restore life, defend our culture, heritage and people".

Quote: "We will make sure that all forms of Russian aggression, be it war or hybrid threats, are well-countered. There is no alternative to peace. Itʼs time Moscow learned that."

More details: The Executive Board is one of UNESCO's three principal organs, alongside the General Conference and the Secretariat. It oversees the organisation's budget and programmes.

The Board has 58 members elected by the General Conference (the advisory body comprising all UNESCO members) on a regional quota basis by relative majority.

Background: In November 2023, for the first time ever, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation did not elect Russia to the Executive Board.

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