via Khmer Times, 09 September 2022: Concluding news story from last week’s conference on Cultural Property Protection.
To further strengthen the commitment to protect the cultural property, Cambodia as the current Chair of ASEAN is dedicated to work with other ASEAN Member States to potentially develop action plan to enhance cultural property protection mechanism in the region, said Ms Phoeurng Sackona, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia and Chairperson of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts (AMCA).
The ASEAN’s commitment to cultural heritage protection is enshrined within the ASEAN Community Vision, the 2000 ASEAN Declaration on Cultural Heritage, the 2016 ASEAN Vientiane Resolution, the 2017 ASEAN Declaration on Culture of Prevention for a Peaceful, Inclusive, Resilient, Healthy, and Harmonious Society, and the 2020 Narrative of ASEAN Identity, she said yesterday in Siem Reap province at the Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Cultural Property Protection: The Prevention of the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Properties.
Source: ASEAN committed to protect cultural property – Khmer Times
