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Reports presented by OAS member States

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Below are the reports presented by OAS member States on progress toward meeting the commitments assumed at the Second Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Culture, held in Mexico City in August 2004 and included in the Plan of Action (REMIC-II/doc.3/04 Rev. 4 Cor. 1).

With respect to national commitments the Mexico Plan of Action states:

•  “States should conduct studies to examine the economic impact of culture, in areas such as the music industry and cultural tourism associated with cultural heritage, festivals, and the arts, among others, and submit these studies to the CIC. The CIC is to report on the conclusions of these studies at the Third Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and recommend inter-American cooperation activities in this field.

•  States should work toward the development of cultural indicators capable of measuring the contribution of culture to the social and economic development of the countries of the Hemisphere, in particular in the fight against poverty and in job creation. States should share these results through the CIC to further cooperation in this area.

•  To urge member states to consider mechanisms for supporting job creation in the cultural sector through horizontal cooperation pilot projects aimed at developing management and commercial skills and report on these initiatives at the next Meeting of Ministers of Culture.

•  To urge states to design educational and cultural policies and programs that will ensure an environment in which creative expression and cultural industries may flourish and in which our peoples, particularly the young, may strengthen their identities. In addition, to urge states to take measures to generate public interest by encouraging artistic creativity. States shall report on these programs at the next Meeting of Ministers of Culture, in 2006.

•  Intensify inter-American cooperation in the identification, documentation, preservation, and appreciation of movable and immovable cultural resources vulnerable to pillage, illicit trafficking and possession of cultural objects through existing mechanisms, including, bilateral and multi-lateral agreements and treaties. Integral to fulfillment of the goals of agreements are national and regional capacity-building efforts for professionals in heritage stewardship and law enforcement, and public education programs.

•  To design and implement public policies or programs geared toward educating and promoting our peoples' understanding of the benefits of intellectual property, as well as to increase awareness of traditional knowledge, popular culture and folklore. To acknowledge the work carried out by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

•  To continue strengthening regular consultative mechanisms, through the pertinent organs of the OAS, so as to ensure that civil society plays an active role in decisions on cultural policy and in the implementation of strategic programs at the hemispheric level.

•  States shall report on their activities pursuant to the items in this Plan of Action to the Technical Secretariat six months prior to the next Meeting of Ministers of Culture, in 2006, in accordance with the guidelines to be drawn up by the CIC”.

The following reports in their original language are available:

Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Mexico
Peru
United States
Venezuela







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