AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan was elected a member of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the 9th session of the General Assembly of the Member States of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, the State Committee for Tourism reports.

Uzbekistan became a member of the committee for 4 years, from 2022 to 2026.

In the second regional electoral group of UNESCO (countries of Eastern Europe and some countries of the CIS), 5 candidates competed for two vacant seats: Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia and Estonia. The largest number of countries voted for Uzbekistan - 105 votes.

The main tasks of the intergovernmental committee for protecting the intangible cultural heritage are to promote objectives of the Convention, guide best practices and develop recommendations on measures to protect the intangible cultural heritage.