Dithny Joan Raton, the Minister of Culture, participated in Havana at the 3rd Meeting of Ministers of Culture of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). which ended Monday and attended by 18 culture ministers and delegations from 28 countries of the region.

The meeting focused on the integration of culture in sustainable development programs for the period 2016-2021 took place in the presence of Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO. The occasion for the Minister Raton, to meet with his counterparts to strengthen cultural cooperation at regional level.

This meeting also allow the monitoring and building of new projects such as the creation of a Regional School of the Arts in Jamaica and the consolidation of already existing programs such as the Caribbean Festival of Arts and Traveling Exhibition of Caribbean Cinema.

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