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UNESCO accepts Serbia’s candidacy for inscription of Slovak naïve art on representative list

Kovacica, 4 September 2023

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Maja Gojkovic said today in Kovacica that UNESCO has accepted Serbia's candidacy for inscription of Slovak naive art on the representative list of intangible cultural heritage.

At the ceremonial opening of the 2nd festival of Slovak naive art in Serbia, Gojkovic pointed out that our nomination successfully passed the first stage of evaluation and is currently in the second stage of consideration.

The final decision will be made in 2024 and we expect the completion of this process with great and realistic optimism, stated the Deputy Prime Minister, who opened the exhibition "Reformers of Slavic literacy and language among the Slavic peoples in Europe" at the same festival.

She stated that the exhibition, whose author is Vieroslava Svetlik, was organised in cooperation with the Forum of Slavic Cultures, an international organisation that works to promote the culture of the countries of the Slavic area.

The Deputy Prime Minister emphasised that the goal of this exhibition is to make the creativity of the Slovak community in Kovacica as visible and recognisable as possible.

According to her, this exhibition once again confirms that culture inexorably unites us and encourages us to get to know each other even better, and that it is a way to use our differences as a wealth of diversity and a basis for creating even stronger threads between our countries and peoples.