2023-05-16 13:31:04
Angola News – The Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, arrived this Tuesday morning, in the Municipality of Mbanza Kongo, Province of Zaire, where she chairs, on the same day, the 1st Ordinary Session of the National Multisectoral Commission for the Safeguarding the World Cultural Heritage.
According to the communiqué published by Notícias de Angola, on arrival in that province in the north of the country, Esperança da Costa received welcome greetings from the Provincial Governor of Zaire, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, and from the ministers of Territorial Administration and Culture and Tourism, Dionísio José da Fonseca and Filipe Zau.
According to the document, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Commission for the Safeguarding of World Cultural Heritage, Esperança da Costa has on her work agenda audiences with representatives of local civil society, in addition to proceeding with the inauguration of the “Comandante Bula” Cultural Center.
During her 48-hour stay in the historic city of Mbanza Kongo, the Vice-President of the Republic will also visit places of interest for the aforementioned Commission and social enterprises in the Province, with emphasis on the Ruins of Kulumbimbi, the Cemetery of the Kings of Kongo, as well as such as the works for the future “Nimi a Lukeni” Airport and the General Hospital of Zaire.
Created under Presidential Order No. 25/18, of March 5th, and recently updated by Presidential Order No. 93/23 of May 3rd, the National Multisectoral Commission for the Safeguarding of the World Cultural Heritage is responsible for promoting the implementation of programs conservation and participatory management of cultural heritage, taking into account the need to adopt special measures to accompany national cultural heritage of exceptional universal value.
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