An ASEAN workshop on youth, culture and development, hosted by Myanmar, is underway in the country's second largest city of Mandalay, the state newspaper NewLight of Myanmar reported Thursday.
The five-day regional workshop running from Wednesday to Sunday is jointly organized by Thailand-based Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Regional Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts, and ASEAN Foundation.
Dozens of youth delegates from the departments under the Myanmar Ministry of Culture, National Culture and Fine Arts Universities and some social organizations are attending the workshop, the report said.
Meanwhile, culture- and arts-related ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to enhance the regional cooperation in the areas of culture and arts at a meeting of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts (AMCA) held in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw in January last year.
The areas of cooperation was outlined as human resources development, protection, preservation and promotion of ASEAN cultural heritage, and development of small and medium cultural enterprises.
According to disclosure, the ASEAN ministers endorsed the work plan of the working groups set up by related ASEAN senior officials, agreeing that funding for cultural cooperation activities be streamed and broadened.
The regional ministers resolved to enhance the cultural profile of ASEAN among the member states and internationally, then report said, adding that at the AMCA+3 (China, Japan and South Korea) meeting attached, the regional ministers supported China's proposal to expedite the drafting of an implementation plan for cultural cooperation between ASEAN and China, welcoming the prospect of a memorandum of understanding between ASEAN and South Korea to formalize cultural cooperation and Japan's initiatives on such cooperation with ASEAN including the proposed ASEAN+3 computer graphics art gallery.
The AMCA met in Nay Pyi Taw to promote a deeper understanding of the region's civilization, arts and culture, and was aimed at contributing towards the emergence of an ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community by 2015. The roadmap for the community called for preservation and promotion of the region's cultural heritage and cultural identity.
ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Source:Xinhua
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