With the participation of Syria… The launch of the World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development (Mondiacult 2022)

Damascus-SANA

With the participation of Syria, the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development “Mondiacult 2022” kicked off today in Mexico, which will run from 28 to 30 September, with the participation of 140 ministers of culture around the world.

The conference calls for the need for culture in all its forms, expressions and meanings to be at the core of any transformational path of human development. The conference also seeks to create a global dialogue on the role of culture in sustainable development.

The Minister of Culture, Dr. Lubana Mushawah, delivered a recorded speech during the work of the first day of the conference, in which she stressed that cultural diversity is the distinguishing feature of the comprehensive Syrian national identity, and the constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic guarantees in form and content the protection of this diversity for the Syrian society with all its components and the multiplicity of its tributaries, and confirms that there is no discrimination based on gender. origin, religion, language, origin or belief, and all people have equal opportunities.

Dr. Mashouh added: “Syria, throughout its history, which dates back to the seventh millennium BC, is a meeting place of civilizations, and the terrorist war aimed at tearing up its geographical unity and striking its cultural diversity. Ethnic and sectarian, therefore, our keenness to protect our cultural diversity parallels our concern for the unity of our homeland, land and people.”

The Minister of Culture emphasized that the national cultural strategy in Syria is based on protecting, preserving and ensuring the sustainability of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage and preserving its great diversity and multiplicity of its diversity, as it is an important pillar of the inclusive national identity and one of the levers of sustainable development, and a decisive factor in establishing cohesion, security and peace.

Dr. Mushawah concluded her speech by saying: “Syria, a founding member of UNESCO, whose contribution was effective in its work, and ratified most of the international conventions that were approved under its umbrella, gave the world its first alphabet, and wrote down on the Ugarit number the first musical note known to mankind. Syria is the cradle of civilizations and a meeting place for Cultures call upon all who are zealous about the world human heritage to support their efforts to preserve this great heritage. Our cultural heritage is not ours alone, it is the property of humanity, and the task of preserving and safeguarding it rests with all of humanity.”

It is noteworthy that the conference was launched forty years after the first World Mondiacult Conference on Cultural Policies held in Mexico in 1982, and 24 years after the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies for Development held in Stockholm-Sweden in 1998.

Amani Farooj

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