ARKA News Agency
Oct 14 2005

ARMENIA TO REPRESENT CE MINISTERS’ COMMITTEE AT CULTURAL DIALOGUE
CONFERENCE

YEREVAN, October 14. /ARKA/. Armenia’s representative Christian
Ter-Stepanyan will represent the CE Ministers’ Committee at the
“Cultural Dialogue” conference in Faro, Portugal, on October 27-28,
as part of the 50th anniversary of the European cultural convention.
The goal of the conference is forming political approaches that will
serve as a basis for the CE’s strategy of developing cultural
dialogue within the European community and between Europe and the
rest of the world. The conference participants are to specify the
directions of implementing the strategy by means of intergovernmental
cooperation between the signatories to the European cultural
convention. The CE is for the first time elaborating clear mechanisms
of cultural dialogues. A number of documents are to be signed at the
conference. Also, the CE Ministers’ Committee decided to open a
framework convention “On values of cultural heritage” in Faro.
Christian Ter-Stepanyan is the RA permanent Representative to CE and
Head of the CE reporter group for education, culture, sport, youth
affairs and ecology. P.T. -0–