UNESCO's heritage committee holds first meeting in Algiers
19/11/2006
The first meeting of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is being held in Algiers Saturday (November 18) and Sunday. UNESCO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura and representatives of the 24 member states of the committee are attending the event.
During the session, the committee will adopt its Rules of Procedure. Directives for the implementation of the 2003 Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and the criteria for inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity are at the centre of discussions.
APS quotes Foreign Minister Mohammed Bedjaoui, who opened the session Saturday, as saying, "Being a priceless value, intangible heritage helps reshape a really human humanism in an asylum-free kingdom for everyone." (El Moudjahid, APS, UNESCO)
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