Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland will take part on 30-31 March in Florence (Italy) in the G7 Ministerial meeting on Culture: Culture as a tool for dialogue among peoples.
The G7-Culture will focus on the protection of cultural heritage, fight against traffic of artistic and historic items and culture as an instrument of dialogue among different nations.
Ministers of Culture from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States will highlight how intercultural dialogue represents an essential tool at the service of international co-operation and world sustainable development.
Background
The Council of Europe is working on a new Convention on offences related to cultural property and illicit trafficking of cultural goods (better known as the Blood Antiquities Convention), which will become the only international treaty focusing on criminal measures and sanctions in this field.
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The initiative aims to criminalise the illicit destruction and trafficking of cultural property, preventing offences, and fostering partnerships within the international community.
This new legal instrument should be adopted on 19 May by the Committee of Ministers meeting in Nicosia under the Cypriot Chairmanship.