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CAN Culture
Ministers put into effect joint
plan to develop cultural
industries
Lima, Mar. 19,
2012.- The Ministers of Culture
of the Andean Community Member
Countries agreed to launch the
2012-2015 Andean Plan to Develop
Cultural Industries and laid
down precise guidelines for
advancing toward the correct
management, enhancement and
social appropriation of the
tangible and intangible cultural
heritage.
These and other agreements were
adopted during the First Meeting
of the Andean Council of
Ministers of Culture and
Cultures. The Meeting was held
last Friday, March 16 in Bogotá
and attended by the Culture
Ministers of Colombia, Ecuador
and Peru, and the Vice-Minister
for Intercultural Affairs of
Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures
and Ecuador’s Vice-Minister of
Heritage Coordination.
In the Declaration of Bogotá
signed at the close of the
Meeting, the Ministers of
Culture agreed to boost the
development of the Andean
Cultural Seal. This instrument
is intended to reinforce the
international solidarity,
circulation and visibility of
the Andean Member Countries’
cultural diversity. It is also
aimed at strengthening the
Social Statistics
and Culture Satellite Accounts
Harmonization and Artistic and
Cultural Development Programs.
In this connection, they
underscored the importance of
the “Preparation and
Implementation of the Culture
Satellite Accounts – CSA in the
Andean Countries” joint project
presented to the Special
Multilateral Fund of the
Organization of American States
– OAS’s Inter-American Council
for Integral Development.
They also agreed to study
financing alternatives for
promoting Andean co-production
and the movement and exhibition
of cultural goods within the
Andean subregion and in third
markets. The viability of
creating a fund to promote
cultural industries will be
looked into, as well.
The Ministers ratified their
duty to protect and safeguard
CAN Member Country cultural
goods and expressions. To that
end, they committed themselves
to take all necessary technical,
political, diplomatic and legal
action in the spheres of
national and international
cooperation.
In that
connection, they entrusted the
Andean Committee on the Tangible
and Intangible Cultural Heritage
with submitting a draft of the
Andean Plan for the Integral
Management of the Cultural
Heritage. This Plan was to
contain guidelines and priority
actions for the designing of
joint measures to protect and
safeguard traditional know-how
associated with nature and the
age-old management of the Amazon
Basin; for boosting the active
and broadest possible
participation of the Community
for purposes of the appropriate
management of the cultural
heritage and for inclusion of
the Qhapaq Ñan on UNESCO’s World
Heritage List, among other
things.
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