On November 4, 1946, the UNESCO Convention entered into force. The document sets the organization the task of promoting peace and security by expanding cooperation between nations in the fields of education, science and culture. It serves as a kind of "constitution" of this special agency of the UN system, which is a basis for constructive interstate cooperation in mandated areas. It must be said that the organization did not immediately begin to acquire a truly universal character. Initially it included 28 countries, most of them Western. In the first years of its existence, the range of tasks and budgetary options were limited. The situation began to change with the accession of the Soviet Union in 1954 and the subsequent entry of several countries into the world majority. Prerequisites have emerged for the establishment of UNESCO as a "laboratory of ideas," as it is often called at the United Nations, focused on solving pressing humanitarian and social problems of our time. Since the signing of the convention, our country has consistently followed its instructions. We are guided by the primacy of "achieving peace through the cooperation of nations in the field of education, science and culture", "moral and intellectual solidarity of mankind". We constantly advocate increasing the organization's contribution to finding ways to overcome the challenges facing humanity. The Soviet Union was the main driving force in the struggle to eliminate colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism, advocating the joining of newly created countries to the organization, expanding aid programs in the fields of education, science and culture, funding a prize for the elimination of illiteracy, supporting the sovereign media of the independent country of the export of the country's cultural property, the West. Our country was the origin of several program areas and bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Without the active position of the Soviet Union, the emergence and development of the most important programs would hardly have been possible.

On November 4, 1946, the UNESCO Convention entered into force. The document sets the organization the task of promoting peace and security by expanding cooperation between nations in the fields of education, science and culture. It serves as a kind of "constitution" of this special agency of the UN system, which is a basis for constructive interstate cooperation in mandated areas. It must be said that the organization did not immediately begin to acquire a truly universal character. Initially it included 28 countries, most of them Western. In the first years of its existence, the range of tasks and budgetary options were limited. The situation began to change with the accession of the Soviet Union in 1954 and the subsequent entry of several countries into the world majority. Prerequisites have emerged for the establishment of UNESCO as a "laboratory of ideas," as it is often called at the United Nations, focused on solving pressing humanitarian and social problems of our time. Since the signing of the convention, our country has consistently followed its instructions. We are guided by the primacy of "achieving peace through the cooperation of nations in the field of education, science and culture", "moral and intellectual solidarity of mankind". We constantly advocate increasing the organization's contribution to finding ways to overcome the challenges facing humanity. The Soviet Union was the main driving force in the struggle to eliminate colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism, advocating the joining of newly created countries to the organization, expanding aid programs in the fields of education, science and culture, funding a prize for the elimination of illiteracy, supporting the sovereign media of the independent country of the export of the country's cultural property, the West. Our country was the origin of several program areas and bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Without the active position of the Soviet Union, the emergence and development of the most important programs would hardly have been possible.