Minsk to host conference on legal protection of world cultural heritage

The conference will be held as part of the Days of Culture Protection. It will be attended by scientists, teachers of schools, post-graduate students, museum workers and representatives of public organizations of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and India. The professionals will discuss the legal protection of cultural heritage in accordance with the Roerich Pact and the Hague Convention. The goal of the conference is to raise awareness of preservation, restoration and legal protection of cultural heritage. "The actuality of the event is determined by the opportunity to influence the moral consciousness of people and to shape the historical memory and cultural identity," the International University "MITSO" noted.

The coordinators of the event are the International University "MITSO", and also the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War, the office of the International Center of the Roerichs in Belarus and the national public association "Belarusian Roerich Fund".