Country profile - General information

Faroes

Joined UNESCO: 12/10/2009 (associate member)

Head of State and/or Government

Prime Minister: H.E. Mr Aksel Vilhelmsson Johannesen

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Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

Contact

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairperson: Mr Sigurd i Jakupsstovu

Secretary-General: Mr Martin Naes

Deputy Secretary-General: Ms Armgard Weihe

Faroese National Commission for UNESCO
The Ministry of Education
Research and Culture
Hoyviksvegur 72
FO-100 Tórshavn
Faroe Islands
Web: www.mmr.fo

Telephone
+298 306500
Fax
+298 306555
E-mail
martinn(a)mmr.fo (SG); armgardw(a)mmr.fo (DSG)
Web site
www.unesco.fo

Addresses delivered in the general policy debate by the Head of Delegation at the General Conference

37 session of the General Conference

H.E. Mr Martin Næs, Secretary-General at the UNESCO

Speech delivered during the General Policy Debate of the 37th session of the General Conference - revised and corrected version of the verbatim records of plenary meetings

36 session of the General Conference

H.E. Mr Sigmundur Isfeld, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Speech delivered during the General Policy Debate of the 36th session of the General Conference and posted as received

35 session of the General Conference

H.E. Mr Joergen Niclasen, Minister for Foreign Affairs

“The Members of UNESCO have now welcomed our nation as an Associate Member of the Organization. I bring to you the deeply felt gratitude on behalf of the Faeroese people.”
“Our education system is highly developed, especially regarding primary and secondary school, with the establishment of a university that is gradually expanding its research and educational fields in close cooperation with universities in neighbouring countries. On average, the Faeroese people are amongst the highest educated populations in the world.”
“The Faeroes’ cultural heritage is precious to us. (…) It is one of the chief objectives in our cultural policy and an important task of our education system to preserve and further develop and modernize our language.”
“We have (…) for decades taken an active role in the well-established system of cooperation between the Nordic countries, not least in the area of cultural policy.”
“As an Associate Member of UNESCO (…) the Faeroes look forward to participating actively in the work undertaken in this distinguished specialized agency of the United Nations. We wholeheartedly share the belief of UNESCO that education, social and natural science, culture and communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal – to build peace in the minds of men.”
“Becoming an Associate Member of UNESCO is an important step forward for us. (…) we hope that our own contributions to the work of UNESCO, as modest and small-scale as they may be, will also make a difference.”