Moldova, France to start cultural heritage cooperation

Chisinau, 18 April /MOLDPRES/-Moldovan Culture Minister Monica Babuc and French Ambassador to Moldova Pascal Vagogne today signed an administrative arrangement on cultural heritage cooperation between the Moldovan and French Culture Ministries.

The agreement provides for the conservation, turning to good account and management of the mobile, architectural and urban heritage. New cadres and experts will also be trained in Moldova or in France, in order to enhance professional abilities of the staff working in the cultural heritage field.

During her speech, Babuc noted that the Moldovan Culture Ministry committed to create public policies and laws on the conservation, protection and turning the cultural national heritage to good account.

“The legislation on the protection and conservation of mobile and archaeological cultural heritage, public monuments and intangible cultural heritage, carried out and approved in 2010, as well as the amendments to the Criminal and Contravention Codes on hardening punishments for the violation of the heritage legislation along with the draft law on museums, will be a solid legislative ground for the agreement we signed today,” Babuc noted. The culture minister voiced her conviction that Moldovan and French experts would take decisive efforts to fully enforce this agreement into our daily life.  

Ambassador Vagogne said the agreement allowed both countries to enhance their cultural heritage cooperation ties.

The administrative arrangement between the Moldovan Culture Ministry and the French Culture and Communication Ministry is the first international treaty Moldova and France sign in the cultural heritage sector.

(Reporter N. Roibu, Editor L. Alcaza)