Monday January 18, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Bari Jahani, in meeting with a delegation of UNESCO here yesterday sought information on preserving of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage by the entity, BNA reported.
In the meeting which was also attended by Sayed Mosaddiq Khalili, Deputy MoIC on Cultural Affairs and spokesman of the ministry, Haroon Hakimi and few more officials from the ministry, Masanori, cultural head of UNESCO in Afghanistan briefed about archeological sites in Afghanistan, saying that reviewing six sites in Aynak Coppermine area of Logar, Herat, Bamyan, Badakhshan, Sari-e-Pul and Balkh provinces which begun in 2013 would be concluded soon and the results would be presented to the ministry of information and culture.
It was also decided that an international conference with the cooperation of national and international entities should be held and it is expected that the conference would be held in Rome from May 25-27 this year. In addition to Afghanistan, several other countries would attend the conference. According to another report, Minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Bari Jahani lauded the activities of the deputy ministry for youth affairs, the BNA reported yesterday. In a meeting, attended by the ministry’s media advisor and spokesman, Haroon Hakimi, the deputy minister of information and culture on youth affairs and a number of the related directors, the minister lauded the activities of the deputy minister, Dr. Kamal Sadat as positive, according to the agency. After briefing his activities reports in different fields, Dr. Kamal Sadat, the deputy minister for the youth affairs was lauded by Minister Jahani who instructed for further paving the grounds for the youth capacity development and enhancing education, to help prevent brain drain from the country, the BNA quoted. “Despite, a little budget of only 0.2 percent, the Ministry of Information and Culture, had high achievements,” said the minister.
