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Welcome to the 34th session
of the General Conference
of UNESCO
T
his guide contains practical information
which we hope you will fi nd useful: informa-
tion on the structure and work of the General
Conference.
The maps of the buildings where meetings are
held are on the inside covers.
We have prepared a schedule of the meetings,
starting on page 22, which includes part of the
programme for the session.
The Delegates' Information Service will be at
your entire disposal to answer any further ques-
tions on the organization of the Conference.
Online information
A
ll information concerning the course of the
session and the accompanying events will be
accessible online on the Internet. Delegates are
strongly encouraged to check the General Con-
ference site every day:
http://www.unesco.org/en/general_conference
The Secretariat of the General Conference
wishes you a good session
All the terms used in this guide
to designate persons are to be interpreted
as referring to men and women alike.
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Summary
What you need to know on arrival
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Registration
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Credentials
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Information
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Documents
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Working languages
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General policy debate
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Seating arrangements for delegates
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Recommended reading
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General Conference
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How the system works
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Plenary
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Commissions and committees
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Taking the fl oor
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Draft resolutions
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Voting procedures
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Elections
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Stages of the General Conference
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General Conference documents
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Diary
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UNESCO: Practical guide
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Paris: Practical guide
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Locations
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What you need to know
on arrival
The 34th session of the General Conference
is being held in Paris, at UNESCO
Headquarters, from 10 a.m. on Tuesday,
16 October to Saturday, 3 November 2007.
W
e recommend that you arrive in Paris on the
eve of the session in order to complete a number
of formalities without rushing.
Registration
R
egistration will take place at the
Delegates'
Reception
in the foyer opposite Room I of the
Conference Building, on the Fontenoy site. You
will be given your
badge
which must be shown
at the entrances of all buildings and at security
checks.
The same service also registers persons
accompanying delegates and provides them with
a badge which allows them access to buildings
throughout the General Conference.
Observers from intergovernmental and non-
governmental organizations and foundations are
requested to register at the IGO/NGO Reception
(Fontenoy building, Pavillon Suffren, 125 Avenue
de Suffren).
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Credentials
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redentials must be sent one week before the
opening date of the session (Rule 23 of the Rules
of Procedure of the General Conference).
Delegations whose credentials have not yet
been presented to the Director-General are
requested to hand them directly to the Secre-
tariat of the
Credentials Committee
, which is
responsible for checking the credentials of all the
delegations (Ms Gisèle Ndédi, Miro Hall, in front
of Miro 1, Tel.: 80437).
Information
To fi nd out all you want to know about the
schedule, content and workings of the General
Conference, contact the
Delegates' Information
Service
(Ms Stella Hughes, tel.: 81671).
The daily schedule of meetings will be dis-
played in the hall of the Conference Building and
on the closed-circuit television screens.
Detailed information on the General Conference
and its workings, in particular the Constitution and
Rules of Procedure, can be found in the
Basic
Texts
, which are available in meeting rooms.
Documents
T
o indicate which documents your delegation
would like to receive during the General Confer-
ence, in what language and how many copies, all
you need do is fi ll in G.C. form 18 which can be
obtained from the
Documents Distribution
Ser-
vice, in the basement of the Conference Building
(see map 2). You will fi nd your documents every
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day in your pigeon-hole at the Documents Distri-
bution Service.
In each meeting room, delegates will fi nd at
their place a complete set of the documents
needed for the work of the body which is using
the room. It is recommended that set of docu-
ments should remain in the room so that it can
be updated.
All UNESCO's General Conference documents
are accessible on the Internet.
Working languages
T
he working languages are Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish. Simultane-
ous interpretation is provided in these six languag-
es; all documents which require a decision by the
General Conference are also published in these
languages. Information documents (34 C/INF) are
available in English and French only.
General policy debate
D
elegations are invited to address any ques-
tion related to the general policy debate to Ms
Patricia Menendez (Offi ce S.383, Tel: 80728).
Seating arrangements for delegates
I
n the plenary meeting rooms and in the com-
missions, one seat is allocated to Member States
in the French alphabetical order, starting with
Honduras, whose name was drawn by lot at the
176th session of the Executive Board. The number
of seats per delegation varies according to the
room. Places will be set aside for observers.
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Recommended reading
T
wo documents must be read ­ documents
34 C/1 (Agenda) and 34 C/2 (Organization of the
work of the session) ­ so that you can decide
which commissions and meetings you will attend.
This also applies to the e-journal of the General
Conference, which will be disseminated daily after
the fi rst day of the session.
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General Conference
T
he General Conference meets every two
years. The participants are all the Member
States and Associate Members; non-Mem-
ber States, intergovernmental organizations and
non-governmental organizations are invited as
observers.
The General Conference decides on the main
lines of emphasis and overall policies of UNESCO
by:

discussing all the issues concerning the
general policy of the Organization, and
occasionally by focusing on certain major
themes;

adopting for the next two years a programme
and budget, the draft of which is submitted
to the General Conference and is the out-
come of a consultation process between the
Member States and the Secretariat;

electing the Members of the Executive Board
for a four-year term (renewed by half every
two years);

appointing, every four years, the Director-
General;

adopting the (six-year) Medium-Term Strat-
egy of the Organization.
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How the system works
T
he General Conference carries out its work
in several organs ­ plenary, commissions
and various committees and working groups
­ which sometimes meet simultaneously.
Plenary
T
he heads of delegation attend the plenary
and take part in the general policy debate. All de-
cisions of the General Conference are taken in
plenary.
Commissions and committees
T
he General Conference may set up at each
session the commissions and committees that it
deems necessary. It has been recommended that
the General Conference establish seven commis-
sions at its 34th session.
In each commission, the elected bureau is
made up of a chairperson, four vice-chairpersons
and a rapporteur; it is assisted by a secretariat
composed of staff members specially seconded
to the commission for the duration of the session.
The agendas of the commissions are organized
around one of the main programme areas of
UNESCO's programme. At this session, all pro-
gramme commissions will also meet jointly before
the start of their respective work to ensure the
necessary interactive discussion of the enhanced
interdisciplinary dimensions of the Organization's
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work (see "interdisciplinary meeting" in Annex V
to document 34 C/2).
The themes for the commissions at this ses-
sion are:
PRX Commission:
General questions
and programme
support
(Room XII)
ED Commission:


Education
(Room II)
SC Commission:


Natural sciences
(Room XII)
SHS Commission:
Social and human
sciences
(Room XII)
CLT Commission:
Culture
(Room II)
CI Commission:


Communication
(Room XI)
ADM Commission:
Administrative and
fi nancial issues
(Room XI)
In each debate, a delegation takes the fl oor
once only. Delegates who have a draft resolution
(DR) to present should, if possible, do so during
their statement. Nevertheless, each commission
can also decide that its bureau will present DRs
at a set moment at the end of the debate.
The General questions and programme support
Commission and the Administrative Commission
will start work on Tuesday 17 October, followed
by other commissions.
There are also three statutory committees: the
Credentials Committee
(Room VI) is made up of
nine members elected at the fi rst plenary meeting
of the General Conference on the proposal of the
Temporary President; it checks the credentials of
participants.
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The
Legal Committee
(Room VIII) consists of
24 members elected at the previous session; it
is responsible for considering draft amendments
to the Constitution or Rules of Procedure of the
General Conference, and legal matters which are
submitted to it.
The
Nominations Committee
(Room IV) con-
sists of the heads of all the delegations with voting
rights at the General Conference; it examines
and submits to the General conference propos-
als concerning the composition of commissions
and committees and other bodies whose mem-
bers must be elected by the General Conference
(Rules 34 and 35 of the Rules of Procedure).
The
General Committee
(Rooms X and
IV) steers the work of the General Conference
and coordinates the work of commissions and
committees; it is made up of the President and
Vice-Presidents of the General Conference and
the chairpersons of the subsidiary organs. It sets
the agenda of the plenary meetings, approves the
list of speakers in the general policy debate and
examines requests for the inclusion of new items
in the agenda. Each commission and committee
chairperson reports regularly to it on the progress
of the work.
Taking the fl oor
D
uring the
general policy debate
, speakers
must limit their statements to 8 minutes which,
for most speakers, means delivering a four-page
double-spaced text.
Delegations are requested to send, in advance,
to Ms Patricia Menendez (Office S.383, tel.:
80728), six copies of their statement which will
be given to the interpreters, the Editor of Records
and the press. A photocopying service is available
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to delegations in front of the sound archives in
the basement of the Conference Building (Offi ce
S.371).
In the commissions, the time limit on speeches
is set by the chairperson. In order to take the fl oor
in commission, please contact the secretariat of
the commission before or during the meeting, but
in any event before the list of speakers is closed.
To be sure of accurate interpretation and a reli-
able report, it is useful to hand a copy of your text
in advance to the secretary and to the rapporteur
of the commission, even if it is not typed. The
room clerks are at speakers' disposal to make
photocopies.
Normally, speakers speak from their seats;
however, during the general policy debate in
Room I, heads of delegation speak from the plat-
form.
Draft resolutions
A

draft resolution
, or
DR
, is a proposal sub-
mitted by one or more delegations with a view to
having it adopted as a decision of the General
Conference. Most DRs aim to modify guidelines
laid down in the draft programme and budget and
are examined initially in commission; some go di-
rectly to the plenary when they concern agenda
items examined only in plenary.
In each commission, the bureau undertakes
an initial analysis of the DRs and prepares the
decisions to which they may give rise on the com-
mission's behalf.
For that purpose, account is taken in particular
of the rules governing their admissibility (Rules 80
and 81 of the Rules of Procedure).
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Voting procedures
E
ach Member State has one vote, unless its
credentials have not been accepted as fully valid
by the Credentials Committee or it has not sat-
isfi ed the provisions of paragraph 2 of Rule 83
of the Rules of Procedure concerning arrears in
contributions.
There are several ways of voting: by show of
hands (the most common), by secret ballot (for
elections) or by roll-call (in exceptional cases).
To vote by show of hands, raise your country's
nameplate.
Decisions are taken by a simple major-
ity of members present and voting except in
cases where a two-thirds majority is required,
for instance for the admission of new members
(Rules 84 and 85 of the Rules of Procedure).
Often, when there is general agreement, deci-
sions are taken without a vote by consensus.
Elections
M
any elections, organized by the Nominations
Committee, take place during the General Con-
ference:

election of the General Committee of the
General Conference, which takes place, on
the proposal of the Executive Board, at the
beginning of the plenary;

election of the Members of the Executive
Board, which takes place in accordance
with the distribution of Member States by
electoral group (Group I: 9 seats, Group II:
7 seats, Group III: 10 seats, Group IV: 12
seats, Group V: 20 seats); candidacies must
be communicated to the Director-General if
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possible at least six weeks before the ses-
sion and in any event at least 48 hours before
the election;

elections of the bureaux of the commissions
and committees of the General Confer-
ence;

elections of the intergovernmental commit-
tees and councils associated with UNESCO's
programme.
The dates will be shown in the timetable
of work and in announcements displayed on
screens. For the election of the Members of the
Executive Board, a
voting bureau
is set up in
Room V from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the days of the
election; delegates may vote there at their conve-
nience without any break in the discussions (see
document 34 C/2).
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Stages of the General
Conference
The fi rst three plenary meetings
Tuesday, 16 October, 10 a.m.
T
he General Conference begins with an open-
ing ceremony in plenary, temporarily presided
over by the head of the delegation whose coun-
try was President at the previous session. The
Temporary President proposes to the General
Conference the choice of the nine members of
the Credentials Committee, which meets on the
same day.
The General Conference then approves its
agenda, prepared by the Executive Board.
Tuesday, 16 October, 3 p.m.
T
he General Conference elects its President
and Vice-Presidents, on the proposal of the No-
minations Committee; the latter, consisting of all
the heads of delegation, will have met that morn-
ing to consider the Executive Board's recommen-
dations on the issue. The Credentials Committee
then submits its fi rst report to plenary.
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Wednesday, 17 October, 10 a.m.
T
he third plenary meeting will begin with con-
sideration of the General Committee's recom-
mendations on the organization of work (34 C/2).
Then, the Chairperson of the Executive Board will
introduce the Report of the Director-General on
the activities of the Organization in 2004-2005
(34 C/3) and the Reports by the Executive Board
(34 C/9).
Next, the Director-General introduces the
general policy debate by presenting the draft pro-
gramme and budget. On that occasion he reviews
UNESCO's actions since the last session of the
General Conference (34 C/INF.2). The general
policy debate concludes with the Director-Gen-
eral's reply.
The plenary will sit until 24 October, at the
same time as the commissions and committees
(see timetable of work, Annex V of document
34 C/2).
The last three days of the session
D
uring the last three days of the session, the
plenary resumes its work in order to consider and
adopt the reports of the commissions (present-
ed by their chairpersons) and the budget. Once
approved in plenary, the drafts prepared by the
commissions become decisions (called resolu-
tions) of the General Conference.
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Other events of the session
A
longside the formal proceedings of the Gen-
eral Conference, several meetings are to be held,
in particular:

Round Table of Ministers of Education: Edu-
cation and economic development (19-20
October);

Round Table of Ministers of Sciences: Sci-
ence and technology for development (26-27
October);

Youth Forum (12-13 October);

Civil Society Forum (25 October).
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General Conference
documents
T
here are plenty of these: some of them
are bound and can be recognized by the
colour of their cover. Old General Confer-
ence hands often refer to them by their number,
or symbol.
All the documents bear the symbol 34 C
because they correspond to the 34th session of
the General Conference.
34 C/ (number)
T
hese are documents requiring a decision by
the General Conference; they constitute the main
series of documents.
34 C/1 Prov. Rev.:
Revised provisional agenda of the
session;
34 C/2:

Organization of work;
34 C/3:

Report by the Director-General
(2004-2005);
34 C/4:

Draft Medium-Term Strategy for
2008­2013;
34 C/5:

Draft Programme and Budget for
2008-2009;
34 C/6:

R e c o m m e n d a ti o n s by t h e
Executive Board on the Draft
Programme and Budget for
2008-2009.
34 C/11:

R e c o m m e n d a ti o n s by t h e
Executive Board on the Draft
Medium-Term Strategy for 2008­
2013.
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hese documents bring information to the at-
tention of the General Conference but do not re-
quire a decision.
34 C/INF.1:
Invitations to the 34th session;
34 C/INF.2:
Opening of the general policy debate
by the Director-General.
34 C/REP
T
his series is used for reports to the General
Conference by the intergovernmental committees
and councils, for example, and for reports of in-
ternational or regional conferences organized by
UNESCO.
34 C/NOM
T
hese documents contain information on the
elections to be held by the General Conference
(names of outgoing countries, number of seats
to be fi lled, etc.).
34 C/DR
T
his series comprises draft resolutions sub-
mitted by Member States.
E-journal
D
uring the session, the e-journal of the Gen-
eral Conference, which is an online information
tool, will provide a daily overview of the work of
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the Conference. It will also contain offi cial notices
and other information of interest to participants.
(http://www.unesco.org/en/general_conference)
Records
P
ursuant to 176 EX/Decision 35 and para-
graph 10 of document 176 EX/35, provisional
verbatim records of the plenary proceedings will
not be produced during the 34th session; the full
verbatim records of the 34th session will natu-
rally still be published after the session. A related
innovation is that on-demand navigable sound
recordings in the six working languages of all
plenary meetings will be available on the General
Conference website:
http://www.unesco.org/en/
general_conference
, where you will be able to lis-
ten live to plenaries and ministerial round table
meetings. The recordings of all meetings are kept
in the Organization's archives, where they may be
consulted.
List of participants
A
provisional list of delegates, representatives
and observers is available on the website of the
General Conference.
(http://www.unesco.org/en/general_conference)
It is regularly updated as and when relevant
information is provided by the delegations to the
Secretariat (Ms Patricia Menendez, Offi ce S.383,
tel.: 80752).
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Various activities organized
during the General Conference
Secretariat activities
D
uring this session, the
"Planet Earth: from
Space to Place"
exhibition will be staged in the
Ségur Hall, in the run-up to International Year of
Planet Earth, 2008. The purpose of the exhibition
is to showcase the planet's diversity, as seen from
space, through satellite images. It should also
show that, through its programmes, UNESCO's
action is primordial in ensuring the sustainable
management of the Earth to the benefi t of present
and future communities. Through its themes, the
exhibition will explore knowledge of the Earth's
system, Earth's dynamics, Earth's diversity and
Earth undergoing change, in particular climate
change and will show how UNESCO contributes,
through its programmes, to capacity-building
designed to meet the challenges of sustainable
development.
Crossroads Africa: The Africa Department
will provide a reception service for delegates
to respond to all requests for information and
documentation on UNESCO's activities for Africa
(Ségur Hall).
The Bureau of Field Coordination with The
National Commissions and UNESCO institutes will
each present their activities in the Ségur Hall.
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Other activities

Coordination meetings of electoral groups;

Information meetings organized by pro-
gramme sectors;

Regional meetings with representatives of
National Commissions organized by the
Secretariat;

Guided tours, organized by the French
delegation and the UNESCO Community
Association (Salle des Pas Perdus).
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Election of the
President and
Vice-Presidents
Notes
Opening of the
session
Wednesday 17 October

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Recommendations of the
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organization of the work
of the session
Introduction to the general
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Beginning of the
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Friday 19 October

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Sunday 21 October

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Tuesday 23 October

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Thursday 25 October

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Director-General's
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policy debate
Election of Members
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Saturday 27 October

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Monday 29 October

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Wednesday 31 October

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Friday 2 November

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Adoption of the
commission reports
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Adoption of the
commission reports
in plenary (continued)
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Archives
Here you will fi nd the archives of the International
Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, of the Pre-
paratory Commission of UNESCO, every session
of the General Conference and Executive Board,
all UNESCO documents and publications and the
Secretariat's records. The Micrography Unit holds
all UNESCO texts since 1972 on microfi che; in
some cases, since 1945. The Unit allows access
through the Internet to full texts of UNESCO docu-
ments from the end of 1995, and for the decisions
of the Executive Board and resolutions of the Gen-
eral Conference from 1946. The reading room is
in the basement of the Fontenoy Building (access
through offi ce C.021).
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to
12.30 p.m., 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., tel.: 81950, 81955.
Bank
You can carry out all banking operations in the two
branches of the Société Générale, one located:

on the ground fl oor of the temporary build-
ing in Fontenoy in front of the lifts, tel.: 01 53
69 55 60, 81640

the other in the hall of the Miollis Building,
tel.: 82827
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 9.30 a.m. to
12.15 p.m. and from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday:
10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Cash dispensers are at your disposal 24 hours
a day in Fontenoy in the Hall Miro and in Miollis
next to the bank.
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Bookshop
Is located at the entrance of the Fontenoy Building
and sells UNESCO publications, CDs, CD-ROMs,
and certain United Nations publications. You will
also fi nd trade-marked UNESCO gifts, as well as
numismatic and philatelic items.
Delegates are entitled to a reduction on presenta-
tion of their badge. Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to
6 p.m., tel.: 82222, 80370.
Cafeteria
Serving lunch:

Seventh fl oor of the Fontenoy Building;
Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday: 11.30 a.m.
to 2.30 p.m.

Basement of the Miollis Building;
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 11.30 a.m. to
2.30 p.m.
Cloakrooms
Cloakrooms are available near Room I.
Commissary
As a delegate you have access, on presenta-
tion of your badge, to the UNESCO Commissary,
which offers a wide range of articles (luxury
foods, perfumes, gifts, etc.). The Commissary
is situated in the fi rst basement of the Bonvin
Building.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 11.45 a.m
to 2.30 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.; Saturday
10.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Delegates are also entitled to a special allowance
of duty-free cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and alco-
hol. A branch of the Commissary, specializing in
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gifts and essential items, is located in the base-
ment of the Conference Building.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 10.45 a.m. to
5.45 p.m.; Saturday 10.45 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Conference bar
Serves coffee, tea, drinks, cakes and sandwiches
all day, with hot and cold meals for dinner only.
This bar is located in the basement of the Con-
ference Building, Fontenoy. Open 8.30 a.m. to
9 p.m., Monday to Saturday.
Internetspaces
Computers providing access to the Internet are
available at various points in the Fontenoy Build-
ing: Salle des Pas Perdus, Mall, Room C.016bis,
in front of Room XI:
http://www.unesco.org/en/general_conference
Internet café
Internet connection is provided through Wifi hot-
spots in a café in the Salle des Pas Perdus.
Emergencies
Inside UNESCO, call the Central Guard Service
in the Fontenoy Building, tel.: 81637 and 81617; in
the Miollis Building, tel.: 82580.
Outside UNESCO, call "Police secours", tel.: 17.
Fire
Inside UNESCO, for all buildings, tel.: 18. Outside
UNESCO, call the Paris fi re brigade, tel.: 18.
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Hotels
You may call upon Carlson Wagonlit Travel agency
located in UNESCO (see page 41). It is to be noted
that no hotel booking will be taken into consider-
ation unless a credit card number+ expiry date is
provided. Credit cards are indeed indispensable
for booking purposes.
Library/Reading room
Ready access to a selection of daily newspapers
and periodicals; dictionaries, encyclopaedias,
directories, guidebooks and other materials.
Consult the online catalogue that lists UNESCO's
documents/publications since 1972 and the
Library's acquisitions since 1946.
Access to online information resources such as
Economist Intelligent Unit, World Bank e-library,
Science Direct, and others. Photocopiers, print-
ers, Wifi hotspots and information services are at
your disposal.
Location:
Ground floor, Fontenoy Building
(R.004)
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 9.30 a.m.
to 6 p.m., Saturdays 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ­ tel.:
80356/60; email: [email protected]
http://www.unesco.org/library/fre/index.shtml
http://intranet.unesco.org/infors/library/fre/index.
shtml
Lost and found
If you have lost or found something, please
contact the Delegates' Reception or the Guard
Service, tel.: 81637.
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Mail
You may ask for mail to be sent to you in your
name, mentioning also the name of your delega-
tion, to the UNESCO address:
UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
F-75352 Paris 07-SP France
Telephone: (33 1) 45 68 10 00
Fax: (33 1) 45 67 16 90
You will fi nd mail addressed to you at your per-
manent delegation's offi ce or, if your delegation
has no offi ce, at the Delegates' Reception, in the
Conference foyer. Observers from IGOs, NGOs
and Foundations should contact their Reception
in offi ce D.187.
Medical emergencies

During the General Conference, a medi-
cal unit of the Paris SAMU (Service d'aide
médicale d'urgence ­ Emergency medical
assistance) is permanently on duty in the
Miro Hall, Conference Building, tel.: 80588.
For a serious emergency outside UNESCO,
call the SAMU directly, tel.: 15.
Irrespective of place or time, if you need a
doctor, telephone SOS Médecins on 01 43
37 77 77.
You can also call the emergency service
of St Joseph's Hospital, 185, rue Raymond
Losserand, 14th arrondissement, tel.:
01 44 12 34 58, saying that you are from
UNESCO.

Medical service and infi rmary, located on
the second fl oor of the Fontenoy Building,
offi ce 2096.
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Opening hours:
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to
6.30 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
On duty during night meetings and Saturday
afternoon, tel.: 80867. In the Miollis Building,
the infi rmary is on the ground fl oor, offi ce
28, tel.: 83231, open from Monday to Satur-
day, 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Meditation area
Designed by Tadao Ando (see Map 1).
Meeting room reservations
To book a meeting room, please contact the
Meeting Room Reservation Service, which will
endeavour to meet the requests of groups of del-
egations according to availability (offi ce S.385,
tel.: 82136/82137).
Newspapers
One newsagent in the hall of the Fontenoy Building
stocks daily newspapers, magazines and books.
Parking
Parking space is reserved on the avenue de Suf-
fren and avenue de Ségur, bordering the UNESCO
perimeter, for cars displaying the special parking
sticker on their windscreen. The stickers may be
obtained from Delegates' Reception.
Photocopies
In the basement of the Conference Building, in
front of the Sound Archives Unit (S.371), there is a
photocopying service at your disposal. In meeting
rooms, ask the conference room offi cers.
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Photographs
You may make arrangements with the two Confer-
ence photographers, whom you will fi nd at their
counter in the hall outside Room I, for photo-
graphs to be taken.
Postal service
Postboxes are to be found near the Place de Fon-
tenoy entrance, behind the lifts, and in the hall of
the Miollis Building.
The post offi ce is to be found at 5, avenue de
Saxe, which is to the right on leaving the build-
ing on the Place de Fontenoy. The post offi ce is
open continuously from Monday to Friday, from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturday mornings, from
8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
For emergencies, a post offi ce is open all night
and on Sundays at 52, rue du Louvre, in the fi rst
arrondissement.
Prayer Room
Offi ce E.164/165 is available to delegates as a
prayer room.
Press
The Press Room is on the ground fl oor of the Fon-
tenoy Building (Ms Sue Williams, Miro Hall 4, tel.:
81706).
Receptions
The catering services are at your disposal for
receptions you may wish to organize at UNESCO
Headquarters. Please consult Ms Patricia Menen-
dez, Offi ce S.383, tel.: 80752.
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Recordings
Sound recordings of all the plenary meetings
and of the meetings of the subsidiary organs of
the Conference may be consulted in the sound
archives. See Mr Farid Zidour (Offi ce S.371, tel.:
80014). Recordings may be purchased at the
price of 10.
Members of delegations can obtain video
recordings of statements by delegates from the
studio (Offi ce S.313). Contacts: Christine Car-
bonnel and Hanna Getachew (tel.: 81668; email:
[email protected]
). Contribution towards costs
is: copy on a DVD disc: 45 ­ copy on a VHS cas-
sette: 40.
Television corporations wishing to obtain profes-
sional cassettes should contact the studio directly
(Offi ce S.313; email:
[email protected]
; tel.:
81668).
Video transmissions via satellite can be organized
from the studio (Offi ce S.313). Feed costs shall be
defrayed by UNESCO. Orders and payments for
satellites must be made by the television corpora-
tions (broadcasters) receiving the transmission.
Contact: Claudio Bruno (tel.: 80077); email:
c.[email protected]).
UNESCO does not transfer webcast fi les on to
DVD discs. Such fi les are available in video formal
on demand on the Organization's website at the
following address:
http://www.unesco.org/en/general_conference
Offi cial photographs of heads of delegation in audi-
ence with the Director-General will be taken by the
UNESCO service. Digital fi les of the photographs
will be mailed to the various delegations. Delega-
tions wishing to have the photographs printed on
glazed paper (two at the most) may contact the
Photo Unit (Offi ce 2030). Contact: Michel Ravas-
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sard (Tel.: 81687); email:
m.ravassard@unesco.
org
and
[email protected]
Restaurant
The Lowendal restaurant is open for lunch from
Monday to Saturday on the seventh fl oor of the
Fontenoy Building from 12 noon to 2.30 p.m. Res-
ervations, tel.: 81600.
Shuttle
A regular shuttle service runs between the Fon-
tenoy and Miollis Buildings (see Map 1).
Speaking clock
To fi nd out the time at any moment of the day or
night: tel.: 3699.
Telephone
UNESCO's telephone number for a call made in
France is 01 45 68 10 00; for a call made from
abroad it is (33 1) 45 68 10 00. If you receive a call,
it will be redirected by the switchboard to your
permanent delegation. If your delegation does not
have a permanent offi ce, the calls will be redi-
rected to the "telephone centre" in the Fontenoy
Building (see Map 1).
If you are expecting a call at a specifi c time, stay
near the "telephone centre", or tell the switch-
board operator where you will be. You might
usefully advise your correspondent to ask for a
"person-to-person" call, which is billed from the
moment the requested correspondent comes on
the line.
To call an extension in UNESCO, dial the fi ve fi g-
ures directly. To reach a number in Paris, dial 0
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and then the 10 digit number of your correspon-
dent. You can call outside Paris and outside
France directly from the offi ce of your permanent
delegation, which will receive the bill later, or from
the switchboard in the Conference Building; in the
latter case, you pay immediately.
Travel
You may book your return or any other journey
in France or abroad at the travel agency
Carlson
Wagonlit Travel
located:

on the ground fl oor of the temporary build-
ing (PC.067) of the Fontenoy Building.
Opening hours
: Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tues-
day to Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to
1 p.m.

For information concerning fl ight times, you can
make direct calls to
Orly Airport
, 01 49 75 15
15, or to
Charles de Gaulle Roissy
Airport, 01
48 62 22 80.
Visas
If you need a visa for your return journey, you may
contact the Visa Service from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30
p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Fri-
day; Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., tel.: 81771,
81860.
Weather
At the time of the General Conference, the
weather in Paris is changeable with some sun-
shine but with mornings and evenings rather cool.
A coat and an umbrella are advisable. The aver-
age daily temperatures vary between 5° and 15°
centigrade.
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Cultural activities in Paris
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposes
meetings for delegates with individuals active in
the fi elds of culture, science and education and
with specialized departments of the French Gov-
ernment. Contact the Host Country Reception
Offi ce (Salle des Pas Perdus, tel.: 85189).
The UNESCO Community Association has
designed special programmes for persons
accompanying participants: information can be
obtained from the Association's stand in the Salle
des Pas Perdus (tel.: 85190).
Department stores
Bon Marché (métro: Sèvres-Babylone) is the near-
est. Buses 80 and 28 will take you to Saint Lazare
train station, which is only a few minutes' walk
from Printemps and Galeries Lafayette, both on
Boulevard Haussmann.
Exchange rates (June 2007)
Local currency is now Euro.
1 $ = 0,74
Museums
All national museums, such as the Louvre, are
closed on Tuesdays; Paris City museums are
closed on Mondays.
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Parking
There are many public fee-paying parking spaces
in Paris, indicated by a sign with a white P on a
blue background.
Restaurants near UNESCO
Would you like to lunch or dine outside UNESCO?
A list of restaurants can be obtained from Del-
egates' Reception.
Theatres, concerts, cinemas and Paris
by night
The host Country Reception Offi ce provides pro-
grammes of cultural events in Paris during the
session and enables you to book concert and
theatre seats.
There are two weekly publications on cultural
events: Pariscope and the Offi ciel des spectacles,
which can both be bought at all news-stands.
Transport in Paris
Individual car hire
All the major car hire fi rms are represented in
Paris. The travel agency at UNESCO can reserve
a car from any fi rm.
Taxis
You can fi nd taxis at the taxi ranks shown on the
map on the back of this guide; it is more reliable
to telephone one of the following numbers: 01 45
66 00 00, 01 49 36 10 10 or 01 47 34 00 00. Give
the address of the building where you are (see the
inside cover of this guide) and UNESCO's tele-
phone number (01 45 68 10 00).
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On arrival, the meter will already show a certain
amount. That amount, which corresponds to
the price of the journey made to pick you up, is
charged to you. There are three rates, according
to the time and distance from the city centre: rate
A ­ in Paris from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to
Saturday; rate B ­ from 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Monday
to Saturday and for Orly and Roissy Airports; rate
C ­ on Sundays and public holidays.
Public transport
Metro:
One ticket is valid for one trip regardless
of the distance travelled. It is cheaper to buy 10
tickets at a time, asking for a "carnet".
Stations close to UNESCO: Ségur, Cambronne,
La Motte-Piquet Grenelle, Sèvres-Lecourbe,
École Militaire.
If you intend to move about frequently, we rec-
ommend that you buy the carte orange (season
ticket), available in all stations. To obtain one, you
will need a passport photograph. A coupon heb-
domadaire (for one week) or a coupon mensuel
(for one month) allows for an unlimited number
of trips.
Bus:
Use the same tickets, coupons and cards as
for the metro, one ticket per trip. You must punch
the tickets but not the coupons or cards. Buses
which pass near UNESCO are the 28, 80, 82, 87
and 92. Bus stops and metro stations are shown
on the map on the back of this guide.
For further information on travel in Paris and the
Paris region, you may consult the RATP (Paris
Transport) website:
http://www.ratp.info/informer/
anglais/index.php
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Locations
Buildings
7, place de Fontenoy
Main building (Building I)
Conference Building (Building II)
Saxe Building (Building III)
Patios (Building IV)
Miollis Building (Building V)
1, rue Miollis
Bonvin Building (Building VI)
31, rue François Bonvin
(access possible through the Miollis Building)
Location of meeting rooms
Delegates Information Service: Map 1
Room I: Map 1
Room II: Map 1
Room III: Map 1
Room IV: Map 1
Room V: Map 1
Room VI: Map 2
Room VII: Map 2
Room VIII: Map 2
Room IX: Map 2
Room X: Map 2
Room XI: Map 2
Room XII: Map 2
Rooms XIII, XIV, XV: Bonvin Building
Room XVI: Miollis Building
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Credentials Committee (Secretariat)
Miro Hall (MR.01) Map 1
Delegates' Reception Desk
Map 1
Documents Distribution
Map 2
Documents Reception Desk
S.388, Map 2
IGO/ONG Offi ce
Offi ce D.187
Information Offi ce
Hall of Ceremonies, Map 1
Internet café
Salle des Pas Perdus, Mall,
Offi ce C.016 Bis, in front of Room XI
Prayer Room
Offi ce E.164/165
Press Room
Miro Hall 3, Map 1
Speakers' list and list of participants
S.383, Map 2
Voting Bureau
Room V, Map 1
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