The G7 brings together, in addition to Italy, the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada.
The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, announced that he will bring together the Ministers of Culture of the G7 countries for a summit on heritage protection, which will be held on March 30 and 31 in Florence.
The meeting will coincide with the Italian presidency of the G7, the group of the seven richest countries on the planet, whose heads of state will meet at the end of May in the Sicilian city of Taormina.
“This is the first meeting in the history of the G7 that Italy plans to organize to place culture and cultural heritage at the center of government policies,” Franceschini said in a statement.
The two-day meeting will address “mainly the topics of protection of cultural heritage, trafficking [of cultural goods] and culture as an instrument of dialogue between peoples”, explained the minister.
By RFI
