PARIS, December 17 (PRENSA LATINA) UNESCO this week included 43 new items in the Lists of Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, during the 16th session of the Committee charged with promoting the Convention on this issue, the organization explained today.
He indicated in a statement that the forum held on Monday included four items in need of urgent protection measures and 39 to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, in addition to adding four projects to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices.
The committee, chaired by Punchi Neelam Megaswat, chair of the Sri Lankan National Commission for UNESCO, has also provided more than half a million dollars in international aid, based on requests from Mongolia, East Timor and Djibouti.
In its sixteenth session, the supporting body of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage included on its agenda 55 nominations submitted by Member States, in the meeting scheduled until Saturday.
Among the records, those for countries that first made it, such as Haiti, Congo, Denmark, Iceland, Micronesia, Montenegro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Seychelles and Timor-Leste, lists now include 630 items from 140 countries United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization Culture (UNESCO).
In Latin America, there have been five amalgamations of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity: La Fiesta Grande de Tarija (Bolivia), El Pasillo (Ecuador), Dances and Expressions associated with the Corpus Christi Festival (Panama), Awajún knowledge on porcelain (Peru) and the ceremonial cycle About the veneration and worship of San Juan Bautista (Venezuela).
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