Azerbaijan joins 14th session of Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

  12 December 2019    Read: 1526
  Azerbaijan joins 14th session of Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has kicked off in Bogota, Colombia, AzVision.az reports citing AZERTAC. 

Azerbaijan is represented at the session by Ambassador-at-Large, Secretary-General of the National Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan for UNESCO Elnur Sultanov and Head of Azerbaijan`s Permanent Mission to UNESCO Anar Karimov. The event brings together over 1,400 delegates from 138 countries.

In the course of six days, the twenty four members of the Intergovernmental Committee will take stock of recent developments in the implementation of the 2003 Convention and make important decisions about its implementation.

The Committee will consider guidelines on how to best safeguard living heritage in emergency situations and will continue its reflection on how to improve the participation of non-governmental organizations in the implementation of the Convention. An update regarding the reform of the periodic reporting mechanism to be launched in 2020 in the Latin American and the Caribbean is also included on the Committee’s agenda. Moreover, Committee members will examine the status of elements inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List and on the use of International Assistance granted to States for supporting their efforts of safeguarding living heritage.

The Committee will also address elements for inscription on the Lists of the Convention. Six elements for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and forty-two on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will be examined as well as three proposals for selection on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. Three International Assistance requests will also be tabled for the Committee’s consideration.


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