Deputy Minister of Culture, Michalis Hadjiyiannis, stressed the importance of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and the work of the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO in his address at an event on June 29 held at the Presidential Palace for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Cyprus, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the relevant UNESCO Convention.
According to a Deputy Minister statement, issued on Monday, Hadjiyiannis said that "the list entries by communities and institutions in Cyprus highlight the richness of our cultural heritage, which we must preserve and pass on to future generations, adapted to the given social and cultural transformations."
In her opening address, the President of the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO, Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel, said that "cultural heritage is not limited to monuments and collections of objects, it includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and transmitted from us to our descendants".
During the event, the 30 items included in the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage for the years 2019 to 2023 were presented and the certificates of registration were awarded to the respective applicants.
The CyBC Archive and the project "Digital Herodotus" were also awarded the Certificate of Registration in the National Index of Good Practices for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Source: Cyprus News Agency