Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
A Committee session (3.COM) is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 4 to 8 November 2008
Speech of H.E. Mr Ertgrul Gunay, Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, on 4 November, at the opening of the 3rd Committee meeting
©UNESCO / D.Stehl30 September 2008 was the deadline for the submission of nomination files for the inscription in 2009 of elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More than 100 files were submitted by States Parties to the Convention. The nominations will be examined by a subsidiary body of the Committee in mid-2009, and when the Committee meets in its 4th session in the last quarter of 2009, it will decide which elements meet the criteria laid out in the Operational Directives and should be inscribed on this List.
