UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and Bulgarian Minister of Culture Boil Banov signed an agreement in Paris to continue the operations of the UNESCO Regional Center for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sofia.
The agreement has been extended for a new six-year period.
The Center in Sofia brings together the efforts of 16 Southeast European countries to promote and implement the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Albania, Armenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Croatia, Montenegro and Ukraine’
Thousands of Bulgarians took part in the national commemoration in the historic area of Oborishte in the Pazardjik region , where the first session of the first Bulgarian National Assembly was held in April 1876. Its deputies decided to proclaim the..
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It will be mostly sunny on Sunday. Clouds will form over the mountains in the afternoon hours with a chance of isolated showers. The weather will be..
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"I wish health, peace and love in every Bulgarian home! May the light and joy of the greatest Christian holiday fill our hearts and minds and strengthen..
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