The written message was handed over by acting charge d’affaires of the Qatari embassy to the Dominican Republic Yasser Awad al-Abdullah, during his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Dominican Republic yesterday.
Qatar attends GCC Cultural Committee meeting in Oman
The 49th meeting of the Cultural Committee of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) was held in Muscat yesterday.
Qatar was represented in the meeting by Director of Culture and Arts Department at the Ministry of Culture and Sports Hamad Mohamed al-Zakiba.
The Director of Culture and Arts Department at the Ministry of Culture and Sports said that the Cultural Committee discussed many topics related to the common Gulf cultural affairs the most important of which is the new cultural strategy of the GCC countries, which will be put in place next year and lasts until 2030.
The committee also discussed co-operation with international organisations with which it has agreements related to the cultural, heritage and artistic fields, and reviewed the schedule of the cultural projects that the ministries of culture in the GCC countries will seek to implement.
The meetings of the GCC Culture Ministers will also be accompanied by a ceremony to honour creative individuals in the Gulf, during which two individuals from each country will be honoured in various cultural fields.
Qatari writer Dr Mariam al-Naimi and artist Ghazi Hussein from Qatar will be honoured during the ceremony.
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