Ms. Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Head of the Department for International Cooperation and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism affirming ASEAN's outstanding value after 57 years of formation and endeavor, it is the community spirit that makes up its identity "Unity in diversity".
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| Opening of the ASEAN Cultural Colors Exhibition at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts in 2022. |
With the aim of contributing to building an ASEAN Community that is people-centered and moving towards a common identity, what would you say about the development of ASEAN cultural cooperation in recent years?
Since its inception, ASEAN has focused on strengthening cultural exchange activities and enhancing the understanding of cultures within ASEAN and beyond.
In practice, ASEAN's cultural and artistic activities are very vibrant and diverse in multilateral cooperation mechanisms such as the Asean Ministerial Conference on Artistic Culture (AMCA), Senior Officials for Cultural Arts of Asean (SOMCA), the Asean Commission on Information Culture (COCI) and the Asean Subcommittee on Culture (SCC).
In recent years, ASEAN has achieved many achievements in cultural cooperation through a variety of tangible, effective and focused activities.
In addition to intra-bloc cooperation, collaboration between ASEAN and a number of dialogue countries is an imperative that is highly valued. Huey, ASEAN-South Korea Music Committee, Asian Traditional Orchestra (ASEAN and South Korea have been operating continuously since 2009), the ASEAN-Japan Cooperation Network of Arts Cultural Training Schools project, the digital archiving project for cultural heritage in ASEAN-Japan cooperation, the ASEAN-China CAEXPO exhibition with a mission to strengthen friendship between China and ASEAN. .
As you can see, the results of cultural cooperation contributed to building ASEAN Community as a spiritual base for 10 member countries, helping people connect with each other more closely, contributing to the development of an increasingly tangible ASEAN Community that adheres to international, regional and national priorities.
In your opinion, what factors have shaped the outcome of this collaboration?
I think one of the factors that has had a strong influence on ASEAN's cultural development is the root of its cultural identity.
ASEAN is known as a culturally diverse, rich region on the worldTherefore, ASEAN's outstanding value after 57 years of formation and effort is the community spirit that makes up its identity Unity in Diversity.
More than half a century of partnership has brought ASEAN members closer together, with initial differences gradually giving way to dialogue, cooperation, understanding and sharing.
In fact, every time we travel abroad, we get a better sense of ASEAN's cultural identity and community spirit. For example, in the framework of World Expo 2020 Dubai, ASEAN member countries jointly celebrated ASEAN Day with a series of events including opening ceremonies and film screenings showcasing the diversity of the region.
At multilateral conferences and forums, ASEAN people are always drawn together by proximity and a common voice. It is mutual understanding, connections and sharing that often contribute to creating tangible results in the field of cultural cooperation between ASEAN countries.
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| Ms. Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Head of the Department for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
In ASEAN cultural cooperation, how has Vietnam demonstrated the responsibility of an active member, contributing to our common success?
In recent years, Vietnam has been promoting initiatives and actively hosting and coordinating with ASEAN member countries to organize many cultural and artistic activities that contribute to expressing the spirit, identity, solidarity and friendship of ASEAN countries with international friends.
Every year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism actively participates in ASEAN cultural conferences held on a rotating basis in ASEAN member countries, while seriously implementing the Plan to Implement the Goals of the ASEAN Cultural-Social Community by 2025 (Project 161).
Notably, in 2022, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of ASEAN Day, cultural and artistic activities are focused on organizing in Vietnam including the ASEAN Cultural Colourful Exhibition in Hanoi; ASEAN Music Festival 2022 in Hoi An, Quang Nam; ASEAN Film Week in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City; In collaboration with the Hue Festival Organizing Committee organizes the Asean Traditional Costume Exhibition.
In 2023, Vietnam participates in the ASEAN Performing Arts Project (BoAPA) 2023; The project to establish an ASEAN Heritage Expert Council and a special working group studying the List of ASEAN cultural heritage, the ASEAN-Korea Cultural Heritage Cooperation Conference;
Effectively promoting the role of coordinating ASEAN-India cultural cooperation for 2015-2018, ASEAN-Japan for 2018-2021, Vietnam continues to take initiative in its role as a national coordinator of ASEAN-South Korea cultural relations for 2021-2024, promote strong cooperation between ASEAN's film and music industries with South Korea, cooperate on ASEAN-Korea cultural heritage; together with ASEAN countries host many programs introducing ASEAN culture and arts within the framework of the 10th China-ASEAN Music Week.
In particular, during the implementation process, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism took initiative, creatively combined, integrated ASEAN plans, programs and activities with Vietnam's operational plans, made maximum use of the support of resources from dialogue countries (China, South Korea, Japan. . ).
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| Cultural cooperation within ASEAN has brought people closer together in member countries. |
What directions do ASEAN countries have in cultural cooperation to overcome the challenges of maintaining efficiency, attractiveness and cohesion among people in the region further?
In the context of a changing world and region, activities in ASCC need to be constantly geared towards implementing the mission of raising people's awareness of ASEAN identity aimed at promoting a culture of tolerance, understanding and mutual respect.
ASEAN countries will continue to exchange with the dialogue countries in order to take advantage of support and funding for cultural, artistic, sports activities of ASEAN.
The Vietnamese side will continue to implement the 2021-2025 Action Plan of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Implementation Plan for the implementation of the objectives of the ASEAN Cultural-Social Community until 2025; Promotion plan for the promotion of ASEAN.
In the coming period, Vietnam will participate in conferences within ASEAN's cultural cooperation mechanism such as: The 2024 Asean Ministers for Culture and Arts (AMCA) Meeting in Malaysia; the 2024 and 2025 Asean Senior Officials Conference on Artistic Cultures (SOMCA) in Malaysia.
In addition, we will also actively participate in projects and programs within ASEAN cultural and artistic cooperation and between ASEAN and dialogue countries; continue to carry out the coordinating role of ASEAN-South Korea cultural cooperation for 2021-2024; implement the coordination role of Asean-UK, Asean-New Zealand cooperation for 2024-2027.
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