EU and Russia :: joint agreement

(2007 12 01 23:50)

Recently the Portuguese Minister of Culture, Isabel Pires de Lima, the EU Commissioner Ján Figel', the Slovenian Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti and the Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Sokolov, gathered in Lisbon for the first meeting of the EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council on Culture, adopted a Joint Statement outlining the future priorities for cultural cooperation between the two partners.

Thanks to this new joint agreement the EU and Russia should intensify their cultural cooperation through a future Culture Action Plan and attain practical goals on a wide range of issues leading to an increase of cultural activities of EU member states in Russia and Russian activities in the EU member states. The Culture Action Plan will serve as a tool to foster the regular exchange of information and views on issues that may have an impact on cultural and audiovisual cooperation and to hold technical consultations when necessary. This statement is a first concrete step in this cooperation.

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