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11 December

• Ratification by Congo of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (Paris, 20 October 2005)
  On 22 October 2008, Congo deposited with the Director-General its instrument of ratification of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. In accordance with the terms of its Article 29, the aforementioned Convention will enter into force with respect to Congo three months after the date of the deposit of its instrument, that is to say on 22 January 2009.

• 112 candidates for inscription on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
  30 September 2008 was the deadline for the submission of nomination files for the inscription in 2009 of elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More than 100 files were submitted by States Parties to the Convention. The nominations will be examined by a subsidiary body of the Committee in mid-2009, and when the Committee meets in its 4th session in the last quarter of 2009, it will decide which elements meet the criteria laid out in the Operational Directives and should be inscribed on this List. A Committee session (3.COM) took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 4 to 8 November 2008. The deadline for the Nomination for Inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List will be 16 March 2009.

4 December

• Diversity of cultural expressions: cooperation and sustainable development on agenda of UNESCO intergovernmental meeting
  Three years after UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, its intergovernmental committee is meeting in Paris on 8 - 12 December. International cooperation and sustainable development will be on the agenda of the meeting that will be opened by the Director-General of the Organization, Koïchiro Matsuura.
  UNESCO Media advisory No.2008-88