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Mon, 12/31/2012 - 08:36
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Persian-speaking Nations Cultural Artistic Council Established

Tehran, Dec 31, IRNA – The cultural artistic council of Persian-speaking nations was set up based on a joint statement signed by Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and his Afghan counterpart, Makhdoom Raheen. The council will also help consolidate cultural and artistic ties between the two states and institutionalize joint programs and policies. It was also agreed that efforts should be made to invite other countries to join the council. The two ministers also underlined the need for strengthening cultural and artistic bonds between the two nations, developing joint scientific, cultural and educational programs, introducing common literature and culture to the world, supporting non-governmental organizations, promoting national and indigenous arts and reviving joint rituals. Hosseini described the two countries' ties as ever-increasing and profound and underlined development of cultural interactions through diplomatic channels. Promoting cultural and artistic activities will create further convergence among Persian-speaking states, he added. Hosseini voiced Iran's readiness to hold cultural weeks and perform various cultural and artistic programs in Ghazni, which was designated as cultural capital of the Islamic world in 2013. Raheen, for his part, thanked Hosseini for the meeting and described Iran as his second homeland. Stating that Persian-speaking countries, especially Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan are the main inheritors of the Persian language, he hoped that the language would serve as a means for promoting friendship, convergence and fraternity. The Afghan information and culture minister hailed Iran's high cultural and artistic capacities and urged Hosseini to make available Iran's experience in the fields of culture and art to his country's artists and men of culture./end

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