Farida Laabidi, Chairwoman of the Committee on Rights and Freedoms, opened the session with Mehdi Benchelah, Head of the UNESCO Project Office in Tunis.
They kept the traditions of Afghan music alive while music was banned under the Taleban, and recruited Ustad Farida Mahwash, who was Afghanistan's top radio star of the 1970s and the only female vocalist to get the celebrity status of Ustad, which means master musician.