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Minister of Culture Haifaa Al-Najjar and her Lebanese counterpart Mohammed Al-Murtada signed today, Thursday, at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman, the executive program for cultural cooperation between the two brotherly countries.
At the signing ceremony of the program, which was attended by the Acting Secretary-General of the Ministry, Eng. Maher Nafash, Chargé d’Affairs at the Lebanese Embassy to Jordan, Ambassador Youssef Raji, and the President of the Lebanese National Commission at UNESCO, Shawky Sassine, Al-Najjar said, “The relationship of the two brotherly peoples, the Jordanian and the Lebanese, is rooted and based on love, cooperation, and passion.” “.
She indicated that the agreement represents the official level for the purposes of regulating cooperation, while at the grassroots level, relations exist and continue in various aspects of life, including cultural and artistic.
She added that Lebanon is rich in cultural and artistic heritage and a pioneer in publishing, indicating that the program includes cooperation in the field of heritage, its preservation and maintenance, and coordination between the two sides in this regard, stressing that Lebanon is a country of culture and arts and still represents a source of joy and creativity in the Arab world.
For his part, Al-Murtada said that there is a lot that unites Lebanon and Jordan, as well as many challenges facing both brotherly countries, in addition to their similar heritage.
At the signing ceremony, which was attended by a number of representatives of the main media, he referred to his participation in the opening of the activities of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts in its current thirty-seventh session yesterday evening, pointing out that the Jerash and Baalbek festivals share a lot of vocabulary, especially with regard to the cultural and artistic heritage.
He said that what unites the two brotherly peoples, the Lebanese and Jordanian, is a lot of commonalities and cultural and civilizational denominators, especially in the historical midst.
Al-Murtada indicated that the agreement includes activating all cultural and artistic aspects, including theatre, festivals, literature and arts of all kinds, publishing and heritage topics.
He stressed that Lebanon and Jordan will work together to activate this program to make culture the main source of raising awareness to face the challenges on the Lebanese and Jordanian levels.
In response to a question by a representative of the Jordan News Agency (Petra), Al-Murtada said, “We look forward to cultural and artistic activation between Lebanon and Jordan at all levels, and we seek to achieve all the details in the program’s provisions, and we will work to find a twinning between cultural and artistic festivals in Lebanon and Jordan.”
