Greece Expands Ties With Peru, UAE Ahead of Civilizations Forum

Greece streangthens taste ties up of Ancient Civilizations Forum. Credit: Greek Reporter Archive

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni outlined Greece’s priorities for its upcoming chairmanship of the Ancient Civilizations Forum (ACF) successful Athens during abstracted meetings with the ambassadors of Peru and the United Arab Emirates.

The discussions underscored Greece’s taste diplomacy agenda, focusing connected practice protection, sustainable development, and the enlargement of planetary cooperation.

Greece to big the 2025 Forum

Greece volition big the 2025 Ancient Civilizations Forum, pursuing a determination announced astatine the 8th Ministerial Conference of the lawsuit successful Yerevan, Armenia.

The Forum was primitively launched successful Athens successful April 2017 arsenic a associated inaugural of Greece, China, Bolivia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Italy, and Peru, with Mexico participating arsenic an observer.

The ACF provides a level for countries with past taste traditions to speech champion practices, beforehand intercultural dialogue, and code communal challenges specified arsenic practice extortion and taste tourism.

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni with Peru’s Ambassador Arturo Javier Arciniega Calderon. Credit: Courtesy of Greek Culture Ministry

Greece aims to fortify taste practice with Peru

During her gathering with Peruvian Ambassador Arturo Javier Arciniega Calderon, Mendoni discussed caller opportunities for bilateral taste cooperation. The dialog centered connected shared priorities, including the safeguarding of taste heritage, the value of taste tourism for some economies, and the request to code cross-border challenges specified arsenic clime alteration and the illicit trafficking of antiquities.

These are successful alignment with Greece’s presidency of the ACF, with a absorption connected sustainable development, practice protection, and assemblage engagement.

Ambassador Arciniega reaffirmed Peru’s continued enactment for Greece’s request for the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures astatine the Acropolis Museum. He besides confirmed Peru’s beardown information successful the October Experts’ Meeting and the December Ministerial Session of the Forum. Proposing an update to the bilateral Cultural Agreement, helium welcomed Mendoni’s inaugural to motion targeted agreements connected combating antiquities smuggling and enhancing taste exchanges.

Recent practice betwixt the 2 Ministries of Culture has progressive knowledge-sharing sessions connected practice protection. Arciniega further highlighted depository partnerships, including upcoming events astatine the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, and the Numismatic Museum, which volition big an accumulation of Peruvian coins successful December. Both sides expressed involvement successful organizing a associated accumulation featuring antiquities from some countries.

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni with UAE’s Ambassador Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri. Credit: Courtesy of Greek Culture Ministry

Expanding taste partnerships with the UAE

In a abstracted meeting, Mendoni welcomed UAE Ambassador Dr. Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, who shared an authoritative missive of gratitude from his Emirati counterpart for Greece’s decisive enactment successful securing UNESCO World Heritage presumption for the Faya Paleontological Landscape of Sharjah successful July. Mendoni, successful turn, thanked the UAE for backing Greece’s palmy bid to inscribe the Minoan Palaces connected the World Heritage List.

The gathering besides explored taste speech initiatives, including the enactment of Greek antiquities exhibitions successful the UAE and reciprocal Emirati showcases successful Athens.

Al Dhaheri highlighted the forthcoming opening of the Zayed National Museum successful December arsenic a large accidental for collaboration and invited Mendoni to sojourn the UAE to reenforce bilateral taste ties. Additionally, the UAE underlined Greece’s relation arsenic the impermanent of grant astatine this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair, 1 of the largest literate events successful the Arab world, scheduled for November.