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UNESCO SEAL Handicrafts Exhibition in Mongolia |
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Saturday, 16 September 2006 |
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. The UNESCO SEAL Program has been implemented
in Mongolia since April 2005. The Mongolian Arts Council in association
with the UNESCO Office in Beijing, the UNESCO Mongolian National
Committee and the Association for Mongolian Handicraft jointly carried
out the Program with the intention of advertising the handicraft
products of Mongolian artists, improving fashions and designs of their
handicraft products and providing with possibilities for exchanging
experiences with foreign artists. The Program involves Mongolia, China
and the Republic of Korea. Japanese artists will be involved in it
starting from 2007. Mongolian artists will compete with the above
countries artists. The selected handicraft products will officially be
announced on October 1 and the certificate of quality will be
presented. Mongolia is the 2006 Regional Coordinator of the SEAL
Program of Northeast Asia. For this reason, an exhibition of handicraft
products of the three countries, which will participate in the
selection, will shortly be opened in Ulaanbaatar. 50 products from each
of China and the Republic of Korea and about 30 products from Mongolia
will be displayed at the exhibition.
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