Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Minister of Culture and Creative Industries, Abraão Vicente, announced, in the City of Praia, that the delivery of the tabanca’s candidacy dossier as a UNESCO World Heritage Site will be postponed until 2024.
At the beginning of this year, the Cultural Heritage Institute (IPC) had announced the submission of the aforementioned application for the second semester, but this was not possible, and now the government official is looking ahead to next year, adding that the work is in phase “ very advanced.”
Abraão Vicente was speaking to Inforpress in the context of the State Budget for 2024, having stated that the Ministry of Culture and Creative Industries needs greater investment, despite the value of the budget for 2024 having increased, from 505,932,789 escudos. Verdens for 527,774,723 escudos.
Apart from this amount, he said, the ministry also counts on the funds that are registered in the Tourism Fund for, in particular, the valorization of the tabanca.
“Next year we will also complete the delivery and monitoring of the candidacy dossier of documents linked to slavery from the national archive Memória do Mundo, it is planned to deliver at least the tabanca dossier (…)”, highlighted the minister.
As stated, the tabanca process is already in a “very advanced state”, the entire survey has been carried out, all requests for authorization from the property holders, highlighting that any material and human heritage asset has legal procedures to be followed.
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