Series CL - Circular Letters

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FR PUNES AG 06-CL

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Circular Letters

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  • 1946- (Creation)

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Circular letters (CL) signed by the Director-General are addressed to the Governments of Member States or National Commissions for UNESCO in the course of official business. For example, they are used to inform the Governments, to solicit information from them and ask for their position on certain questions, to send invitations to conferences, to invite applications for higher posts in the Secretariat.

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Paper documents, since 2000 all published in electronic form as well

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From 1947-1956, there was another category of Circular Letters, called Miscellaneous Letters (ML). In all 1149 such letters were circulated (ML/1-1149).

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