Chairman Le Hoai Trung (Source: Internet) Trung, who is also Deputy ForeignMinister, delegated tasks to the commission this year, including increasingactivities in education, urging the UNESCO to recognise the royal records of theNguyen dynasty as a document heritage of the Asia-Pacific Region’s Memory ofthe World Programme, Bai Choi arts of the central region and Xoan singing as anintangible cultural heritage of humanity, as well as pushing forward Vietnam’sbid for the post of UNESCO Director General for 2017-2021.
He said ministries, agencies andlocalities should fully tap support from UNESCO while the commission’ssub-committees should devise mechanisms to further preserve and upholdVietnam’s heritage.
According to him, more attentionshould be given to honouring scientific heritage this year, especially thoseregarding hydrology and oceanography.
Localities were also asked to workclosely with sub-committees to remove difficulties in finance and humanresources training.
Tran Thi Hoang Mai, Vice SecretaryGeneral of the commission, said the commission actively joined UNESCO’s forumsand meetings last year, including the meetings of the UNESCO Executive Boardand the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, during which Vietnam’s stature inUNESCO’s multilateral forums has improved.
Vietnam undertook several importantpositions in UNESCO’s committees and hosted the eighth meeting of the Memory ofthe World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.
The commission succeeded in seekingUNESCO recognition to the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms worship practices asthe world intangible cultural heritage, literary works in the Hue imperialarchitecture and woodblocks of Phuc Giang school as the Asia-Pacific documentheritage.
It also effectively approached UNESCO’s resources and tapped UNESCO’sinitiatives and experience for socio-economic development, she said.
On the occasion, Trung presented theinsignia “For Vietnam’s diplomatic cause” to Chairman of the Vietnam Federationof UNESCO Associations Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Institute ofGeological and Mineral Sciences Tran Tan Van and Chairman and Secretary Generalof the Man and Biosphere (MAB) Vietnam Committee Nguyen Hoang Tri.-VNA
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