On November 16th 2005 we celebrate 60 years since the foundation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, occasion on which Romfilatelia, the society specialized in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, launches the themed issue UNESCO – 60 years.
Founded in 1945, the organization has its headquarters in Paris and 63 sub-quarters in various countries of the world. The constitutive act, adopted at the London Conference of November 1945 and applied in November 1946, became effective after being approved by 20 founding states.
Romania is a member of UNESCO since July 27th 1956.
The purpose of the organization is contributing to maintaining peace and international security by helping through education, science, culture and communication, cooperation between nations and ensuring universal respect of justice, law, human rights and fundamental freedoms for everyone, indifferent of race, sex, language or religion, in accordance to the United Nations Charter.
Today, UNESCO has 191 member states and 6 associated states.
One of the UNESCO mission is that of selecting and including on the list of universal patrimony places and monuments that are important from a natural of historic point of view, of whose salvation and preservation are relevant for the world community.
In this context, Romania prides itself for succeeding in registering on the World Patrimony List seven great natural objectives encompassing 31 sites, the most representative being: the Danube Delta, the Monasteries from the North of Moldavia, the Wooden Churches of Maramures, the village settlements with fortified churches of Transylvania, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, the Hurez Monastery and the Historical Centre of Sighisoara.
The philatelic issue UNESCO – 60 years is presented as a stamp-label ensemble, which reunites the artistic graphics of the stamp with UNESCO logo especially created for this anniversary. The stamp lay-out presents the image of one of the ten artifacts of world culture, discovered in the territory of Romania in 1956, at Hamangia (Cernavoda).
The statue, named “The Thinker of Hamangia”, dates since the 4th Millennium BC and belongs to the first civilization of meridional origins, established on the Western coasts of the Black Sea.
