On 16 November 2020, the President of Ukraine initiated an international flashmob of video greetings. The purpose of the event is to draw attention to UNESCO activities and to support the values the organization protects all over the world.

Ukraine invites all UNESCO Member States to support the flashmob and to publish videos on their official channels and social networks about the importance of UNESCO for each country. Due to coronavirus pandemic that makes mass celebrations impossible, a digital content flashmob is an universal way to engage the international community in celebrating the 75th anniversary of the international organization.

The Ukrainian video greeting shows tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine from the UNESCO World Heritage List. The list of Ukrainian material heritage includes St. Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi, the Ensemble of the historic center of Lviv and the Ensemble of St. George's Cathedral, the Struve Geodetic Arc, the Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Ukraine and Poland, the Ancient city of Chersonese and its chora, Ancient and Primewal Beech Forests of the Carpathians. The intangible heritage includes the Tradition of Kosiv painted ceramics, Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region, Petrykivka decorative painting as a phenomenon of the Ukrainian ornamental folk art.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Chairman of the National Commission for UNESCO in Ukraine, First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova personally congratulated UNESCO on its 75th anniversary.

You can view the greetings by following the link: https://youtu.be/30SiqDzkE2w

UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations in the field of education, science and culture, which was founded on 16 November 1946.

Ukraine joined UNESCO in 1954 and since then has been actively involved in its activities:

• Ukraine has been elected to the governing body of UNESCO - the Executive Board - for four times. There are plans to join it for the fifth time - elections will take place in 2021.
• Ukraine has signed 18 UNESCO conventions, including the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which is an important legal instrument for the protection of cultural heritage in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
• Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014, the UNESCO Executive Board has adopted eleven "Monitoring the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine)” decisions, which provide monitoring of the situation in the occupied peninsula within UNESCO competence.
• In 2019, Ukraine was elected to the International Co-ordinating Council of the UNESCO ‘Man and the Biosphere’ Programme.

Priority areas of Ukraine's cooperation with UNESCO:

• ensuring adoption and further implementation of the UNESCO Executive Board decisions on "Monitoring the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine)».
• preservation of cultural and natural heritage, as well as intangible cultural heritage.
• development of science and improving the quality of education.
• youth policy and sports (sports for peace and development, quality physical education, anti-doping).
• preservation of biosphere reserves.
• communication and information (information society, intelligent information technologies).

The National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO has been operating since 1996. Today the commission is headed by First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova.