Zelenskyy: Russia expelled from UNESCO Executive Board
President believes the era of Russian influence is over
For the first time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization did not elect Russia to one of its main bodies, the Executive Board.
This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Twitter (X).
According to the Ukrainian president, for the first time in history, Russia was "expelled from the UNESCO Executive Board."
"The era of Russian influence is over, and rightly so. Russian terrorists have no place at the head of important international organizations. Russia's international role will only continue to weaken," he added.
UNESCO's Executive Board is one of the three key organs of the Organization (along with the General Conference and the Secretariat) that manages its budgetary and programmatic activities.
The Board has 58 members elected by the General Conference, an advisory body composed of all UNESCO members. The members of the Executive Board are elected on a quota basis, with quotas allocated to each region by relative majority vote.
Russia was a member of Group II "Eastern Europe", from which Serbia (137 votes), Albania (134), Slovakia (117) and the Czech Republic (99) were elected.
Last week, for the first time, a representative of Russia was not elected to the International Court of Justice: he lost to a representative of Romania, former Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.
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