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Ministry of Culture Celebrates Siem Reap as an ASEAN City in Front of Angkor Wat

Siem Reap: On Friday Morning, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts organized a cultural event to celebrate Siem Reap as the ASEAN Cultural City 2020-2022. The event took place in front of Angkor Wat and will last from the 10 to 13 of December with the participation of Siem Reap provincial authorities.

Secretary of State of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Pen Mony Makara, said the organization of the cultural event shows the interest of Cambodia as a member of ASEAN and the rotating chair of the Ministerial Meeting on Culture and Fine Arts ASEAN for 2020 to 2022.

She added the decision to select Siem Reap as an "ASEAN Cultural City" was not a coincidence, as Siem Reap was the former capital of the Khmer Empire, at least from the 9-15 century, with its Angkor Wat temple as major attraction of the Kingdom. She has added that Angkor Wat is a testimony of a rich in both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

The current cultural event sets not only a celebration for inclusion of Siem Reap as an ASEAN Cultural City, but also part of the “new normal” in the context of Covid-19 as a national economic recovery.

According to Pen Mony Makaram, since 2008, at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Culture and the Arts, it has been agreed that each country will chair its own city selection meeting named the ASEAN Cultural City. Previously selected ASEAN cultural cities includes Cebu, Philippines from 2010-2011, Singapore from 2012-2013, Hue in Vietnam from 2014-2015, Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei from 2016-2017. Yogyakarta, Indonesia has been selected between 2018-2020 and Cambodia’s Siem Reap is the sixth city

The cultural event will present many cultural activities in different places in Siem Reap, such as the exhibition of ancient paintings, the exhibition of silk weaving, the festival of Khmer cuisine, reading programs, street painting, recitation of poems, face-to-face encounters with artists and more.

The event contributes to the preservation, promotion and appreciation of Cambodian cultural heritage on the national and international stage, with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts supports the organization of a festival to showcase all kinds of cultural works, in collaboration with relevant ministries, institutions, organizations, associations, especially private partners, to turn the potential of Cambodian culture. As a force to encourage Cambodian children to use intellectual ideas to produce new cultural works and turn the Kingdom into a strong center for promoting Cambodian cultural products.



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