UNESCO to establish ‘International Centre for Rapprochement of Cultures

UNESCO to establish ‘International Centre for Rapprochement of Cultures 1

The center will sell cultural research and studies in related fields, prepare courses, and organize academic activities on the history and practice of intercultural interaction in Central Asia and other regions.

UNESCO General Director Audrey Azoulay signed the settlement with Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Gulshara Abdykalikova, thanked Kazakhstan for contributing to UNESCO’s work, and stated the center would facilitate intercultural dialogue on a worldwide and regional scale.

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Abdykalikova briefed Azoulay on the development of Turkestan city and different UNESCO-related tasks and reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s dedication to UNESCO’s work. Abdykalikova said Kazakhstan considers the World Heritage Site’s popularity of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi and treats it by worldwide standards for the safety of historical and cultural monuments.

The deputy prime minister additionally asked UNESCO to guide a celebration marking the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Kazakh poet and thinker Abai Kunanbayuly at the business enterprise’s headquarters in the subsequent year.

Kazakhstan has been a member of UNESCO since May 22, 1992. The National Commission of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) coordinates the paintings with the corporation.

Kazakhstan has five UNESCO World Heritage sites, with three cultural and nature websites. The cultural websites are the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (inscribed in 2003, taken into consideration to be the exceptional-preserved Timurid Empire construction), Petroglyphs inside the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly (2004, the website features 500 petroglyphs or rock carvings, which scientists date again to the latter half of the second millennium BC) and Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor (2014, consists of 33 ancient and ancient websites). The herbal websites are Sayaka (2008, steppe and lakes of Northern Kazakhstan) and Western Tien-Shan (2016, mountain variety machine).