The Saudi Assistant Minister of Culture, Rakan bin Ibrahim Al-Touq, met on Saturday with Brazil’s Culture Minister, Margareth Menezes, in the Indian city of Varanasi. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the G20 Cultural Ministers' meeting in Varanasi. Al-Touq congratulated the Brazilian Culture Minister for her country's assumption of the G20 Presidency 2024, underlying the importance of upholding the cultural agenda within the G20 to highlight the global creative cultural landsacpe and foster the exchange of expertise and information among member states.
The former Argentine Navy s Mechanics School, which functioned as a clandestine detention center during the 1976-1983 military regime and was later turned into the Memory Museum to promote awareness about human rights violations, has been granted Mercosur cultural heritage status by the Culture Ministers of the bloc, who convened Friday in Buenos Aires for their 54th meeting.