GOVERNMENT APPROVES RA BILL "ON NON-MATERIAL CULTURAL HERITAGE"

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. At the February 28 sitting,
the RA government approved the RA bill "On Non-material Cultural
Heritage," which will be submitted for the NA’s discussion in the
established order. As RA Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosian told
journalists after the sitting, all laws adopted so far regarded
material cultural heritage. This is the first law, which seriously
touches upon non-material cultural heritage.

H. Poghosian said that the bill gives the definitions of the main
notions regarding non-material cultural heritage. In particular, among
these notions are non-material cultural heritage, non-material value,
bearer of non-material value, and so on. And non-material cultural
values are folk lore heritage, all oral forms of tradition, language,
dialects, folk art of singing, performing art, etc.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress