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FRENCH GOVERNMENT PAPER ARGUES FOR RECONSIDERATION OF EU CULTURAL COOPERATION PROTOCOL MODEL
A strategy paper just released by the French Foreign and European Affairs Department argues for a rethinking of the cultural cooperation protocol recently incorporated by the European Union (EU) into its trade agreements. The document also makes the case for coordinated work among States to promote the principles and objectives of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in trade agreements and at the WTO consistent with Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention.
JURISTS’ NETWORK ROUNDTABLE FOCUSES ON IMPACT OF REFERENCES TO UNESCO CONVENTION IN OTHER INTERNATIONAL FORUMS
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.
VISIBILITY OF UNESCO CONVENTION, ONGOING RATIFICATION CHALLENGES, ON AGENDA OF DECEMBER INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE SESSION
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.
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