Ambassador Le Thi Hong Van, head of Vietnam’s delegation to UNESCO (Picture: VNA)Paris (VNA) – Wanting again
on the final 20 years because the adoption of the UNESCO Conference for the Safeguarding of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage in 2003, Vietnam will be pleased with its achievements
and energetic contributions to the implementation of this treaty, not solely on the
nationwide but in addition international degree, declared Ambassador Le Thi Hong Van, head of Vietnam’s delegation to UNESCO.
The ambassador made the remarks throughout an interview granted to
the Vietnam Information Company on the event of the conference’s twentieth anniversary (April 18).
She elaborated that on the nationwide
degree, Vietnam, one of many 30 first states to hitch this conference, has made
quite a few efforts to combine the treaty’s contents and
spirit in its legal guidelines, programmes, and initiatives associated to intangible cultural
heritage in addition to socio-economic elements.
The nation’s expertise, information,
and efforts in defending and bringing into play intangible cultural heritage
when it comes to idea, legislation, and apply have been extremely valued pretty much as good
classes for a lot of nations within the area and the world, contributing to the
efficient and sensible enforcement of the conference.
By defending and optimising the worth of its
15 intangible cultural heritage objects recognised by UNESCO, Vietnam has helped
protect the consultant heritage of humanity and people in want of pressing
safeguarding, Van went on.
On the international degree, the nation has made
proactive and constructive contributions, particularly to the conference’s Inter-governmental
Committee – the important thing government mechanism of the conference. The nation was one
of the members elected the earliest to the Inter-governmental Committee, within the
2006 – 2010 tenure. Final 12 months, it was elected to the committee for 2022 – 2026
with the most important variety of votes.
The elections held significance in lots of
elements as they confirmed Vietnam’s rising stature and popularity within the
worldwide enviornment, the worldwide neighborhood’s belief within the nation’s
capabilities at multilateral establishments, in addition to their recognition of the nation’s
contributions to the preservation and capitalisation of the values of home
and international intangible cultural heritage, the ambassador mentioned.
A mass efficiency of the Xoe dance of Thai ethnic folks. The artwork of the Xoe dance was included within the consultant listing of intangible cultural heritage of humanity in December 2021. (Picture: VNA) It is a results of the nation’s
overseas coverage of multilateralisation and diversification of exterior
relations, and complete, intensive, and efficient integration into the
world, she opined.
As a member of the Inter-governmental
Committee, Vietnam has been straight participating within the constructing and adoption
of UNESCO’s vital selections about tradition, serving to realise the conference’s
objectives and priorities and assure nationwide pursuits on the highest potential
degree in international cultural cooperation.
This has affirmed Vietnam’s position and
popularity at UNESCO and within the worldwide enviornment in efforts to advertise the
significance of intangible cultural heritage, which isn’t solely an important
useful resource for cultural variety, creativity, dialogue amongst cultures, and
social cohesion but in addition an impetus for sustainable improvement, based on Van.
The diplomat mentioned UNESCO’s
recognition of 15 intangible cultural heritage objects, together with eight tangible
cultural and pure ones, is an illustration of the worldwide neighborhood’s
excessive analysis of Vietnam’s cultural heritage and values.
Via the popularity of these heritage items, the
nation has alternatives to honour tireless efforts by the neighborhood and
artisans in preserving, selling, and passing down heritage values to future
generations; introduce the cultural quintessence of Vietnam and pictures of a
nation with each dynamic improvement and wealthy traditions; and garner worldwide
companions’ assist for heritage safety and worth capitalisation.
Vietnam can be deeply conscious that the
heritage recognition will not be solely a supply of pleasure but in addition a duty of
the nation, all-level authorities, sectors, localities, and artisans in
preserving and bringing into play heritage values, Ambassador Van added./.