Yadollah Parmoun told a press conference in Koushk monument on Tuesday that the second public session of UNESCO Board of Governors would be held in Laleh Hotel, May 4-6, which would hold the ceremony to celebrate the organization’s 70th establishment anniversary. “Iran has plans to use UNESCO’s official logo in all activities of Category 2 Regional Research Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in West and Central Asia,” Parmoun told reporters.
He also said that the number of countries working on their intangible heritage had risen dramatically in recent years, with a consequence of an intangible heritage convention being under drafting; “intangible heritage cases help regional peace significantly, and UNESCO has set it as a priority to file these cases; one mechanism is establishment of Category 2 centers to promote intangible heritage value and place. Iran hosts and supports such a Category 2 regional center,” said the head of the center.
“The speakers will present their experiences and expertise to the audience on UNESCO; participants will also pay a visit to Koushk monument, and address NGOs and successful cases of intangible heritage, and they discuss plans for 2015 upcoming months,” Parmoun detailed.
Mohammad Hassan Talebian, Cultural Heritage deputy-head and head of Iran’s regional Intangible Heritage Board of Governors and Cultural Heritage’s envoy to the Board, told the reporters that the center was initially established to cover three countries of Iran, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan; “however, 10 other countries joined the center including Armenia, Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan,” he added, “5 other countries, Republic of Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Qatar and Oman, are in the process of completing their membership documents in the center,” he said.
Talebian noted that an official website of the center would be inaugurated in two Persian and English languages; “the website observes UNESCO standards of conduct and will provide the public with the latest news,” he said.
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