Representative of Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Culture and Tourism Nazim Samadov and expert of UNESCO on intangible cultural heritage Sanubar Bagirova attended a meeting of UNESCO`s intergovernmental working group on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris, France. The aim of the meeting was to facilitate nominations to the Representative List.
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage decided (Decision 5.COM 7) to convene before its sixth session an open ended intergovernmental working group to discuss possible measures to improve the treatment of nominations to the Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat.
This open-ended intergovernmental working group was established by the Committee following debate on the establishment of a Subsidiary Body on the examination of nominations to the Representative List, during which the Committee had to determine the number of nominations that it would have to examine in the 2011 cycle, as well as the working methods of the Subsidiary Body.