This final session, which marked the last phase of intergovernmental negotiations, enabled the experts to finalize the text of the preliminary draft convention.

UNESCO: Diversity of Cultural Expressions

This session adopted a recommendation requesting the General Conference to take into consideration the following title for the Convention: "Preliminary Draft Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions" and to adopt the text at its 33rd session (October 2005). ( Recommendation of the Third Intergovernmental Meeting).

UNESCO: Diversity of Cultural Expressions

"At some point the world community needs to come together and draft some new convention or treaty, " said Paul Dempsey, director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and McGill University in Montreal.

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