LITHUANIA DEPOSITED THE CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE DIVERSITY OF CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS RATIFICATION DOCUMENTS TO THE UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL
On 18 December Lithuanian Permanent Representative to UNESCO Ambassador Ina Marčiulionytė together with twelve EU ambassadors submitted the ratification documents of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to the Director General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura.
The main objective of the Convention is to create, in the context of an increasingly interconnected world, an enabling environment in which all cultural expressions may be affirmed in their rich creative diversity, renewed through exchanges and partnerships, and made accessible to all for the benefit of humanity.
In November 2004 the EU Council empowered the European Commission to participate in the UNESCO negotiations of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions on behalf of the European Community. This is the First UNESCO convention to which the European Commission has adhered.
The Convention was adopted on 20 October 2005 by UNESCO General Conference and ratified by Lithuania on 14 December 2006.
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