The third ordinary session of the Intergovernmental Committee was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from December 7-9, 2009. It was the first meeting of the Committee since the second phase of implementation of the Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was launched at the Conference of the Parties in June 2009.

In opening the second meeting of the International network of lawyers for the diversity of cultural expressions (RIJDEC), Professor Ivan Bernier emphasized that references to the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in other national and international forums will be an essential element of its life as a legal instrument.
For this reason, the RIJDEC decided to concentrate on this theme at a roundtable held December 5, 2009 in Paris on the eve of the meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention.

A Caribbean Coalition for Cultural Diversity has been established to advocate cultural positions of the region relating to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005).
Creation of the Caribbean CCD was announced during the creativity and innovation assembly of the Commonwealth People’s Forum taking place on the eve of Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) next weekend.
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