He also stressed that among the major topics to be discussed in the meeting are the ratification of the Convention, the implementation of the normative instrument at the national level, the preparation of nominations for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and of inventories of expressions of the intangible cultural heritage.
The ideological-normative usage of multiculturalism is that which generates the greatest level of debate since it constitutes a slogan and model for political action based on sociological theorising and ethical-philosophical consideration about the place of those with culturally distinct identities in contemporary society.