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Fig. 2 – icons Gallery
during the Conference, as well as bilateral meetings of ministers, and
a visit was paid to Ohrid’s cultural monuments: St.Clement’s church,
St.Pantelejmon at Plaosnik, the Ancient Theatre (Fig. 1), St.Bogorodica
Perivlepta church, and the Icons Gallery (Fig. 2).
According to the Conference Program, the International Group
worked in two sessions on 3 and 4 November 2006. The International
Working Group was created during the Second Ministerial Conference
in Venice in 2005, with the basic task to help the UNESCO Regional
Bureau in Venice – BRESCE – in defining and implementing all the
projects that arise from this frame of cooperation.
In the first, as well as in the second working session, representatives,
members of the International Working Group from Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia,
Croatia, and Montenegro participated, including members of South-
East European countries, representatives from Italy, representatives from
UNESCO, the International managerial group-mission in Skopje, as well
as observers from Greece (Ministry of Culture), France (the Embassy in
Skopje), Lithuania, and Ukraine (the Embassy in Skopje).
At the beginning of the first session the introductory presentation
was delivered by the representative from Macedonia, the Italian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and a representative from UNESCO.
The UNESCO representative from Venice presented the
achievements accomplished in the period between the Conference in
Mostar in 2004 up-to-date, among which was promoted the web side
of the UNESCO Regional Bureau in Venice.