First Extraordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Committee (1.EXT.COM)
At its first session in Algiers, 18 and 19 November 2006, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage accepted the generous offer of China to host an extraordinary session of the Committee (Decision 1.COM 8).
This meeting took place in Chengdu, China, from 23 to 27 May 2007.
Committee Members during the first extraordinary session
إستونيا, الإمارات العربية المتحدة, البرازيل, الجزائر, الجمهورية العربية السورية, السنغال, الصين, المكسيك, الهند, اليابان, بلجيكا, بلغاريا, بوليفيا (دولة - المتعددة القوميات), بيرو, بيلاروس, تركيا, جمهورية أفريقيا الوسطى, رومانيا, غابون, فرنسا, فييت نام, مالي, نيجيريا و هنغاريا
Members of the Bureau of the first extraordinary session of the Committee
- Chairperson: H.E. Mr WANG Xuexian (China)
- Vice-Chairs: Belgium, Bolivia, Estonia and the Syrian Arab Republic
- Rapporteur: Mr Ousmane BLONDIN DIOP (Senegal)
Speeches
- Message from Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
- H.E. Mr Sun Jiazheng, Minister of Culture, People’s Republic of China: الإنجليزية
- H.E. Mr Jiang Jufeng, Governor of the Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China: الإنجليزية
- H.E. Mr Zhang Xinsheng, Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Vice Minister of Education, People’s Republic of China: soon available
- Ms Françoise Rivière, Representative of the Director-General of UNESCO, Assistant Director-General for Culture: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
Oral report:
- Oral report of the Rapporteur: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
Decisions, Summary records and participants
- Decisions adopted: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
- Summary records: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية (approved during the second session in Tokyo)
- List of participants: English-French
Working documents distributed before the meeting
- General information
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/INF.1: الإنجليزية PDF - WORD|الفرنسية PDF - WORD
For more details and electronic versions of forms, please consult page on Practical Information - Synthesis of comments received from States Parties in response to Decisions 1. COM 5, 1. COM 6 and 1. COM 7
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/INF.2 Rev.: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
Full comments of 35 States Parties are presented at the end of this page - Election of the Members of the Bureau of the First Extraordinary Session of the Committee
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/2: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Adoption of the Agenda
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/3: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Requests for Observer status
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/4 Rev.: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Discussion on the nature of the lists called for in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and on the procedures for nominations and inscriptions
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/5: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Criteria for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/6: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Incorporation of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/7: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Possible creation of an emblem of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/8: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Draft Financial Regulations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/9: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Advisory assistance to the Committee
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/10: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية - Discussion on the implementation of Article 18 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
ITH/07/1.EXT.COM/CONF.207/11: الإنجليزية|الفرنسية
Comments of States Parties solicited by the Intergovernmental Committee during its first session
During its meeting in Algiers the Committee decided (الإنجليزية|الفرنسية) to invite written comments from the States Parties to the Convention on three issues:
- An outline for the set of Operational Guidelines that are to be developed by the Committee (Decision 1.COM 5)
- The question of advisory assistance to the Committee (Decision 1.COM 6)
- Criteria for inscription on the Lists established by the Convention (Decision 1.COM 7)
The Secretariat received comments from 35 States Parties, presented here in the language in which they were submitted: Algeria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe.