Skopje, 29 September 2025 (MIA) - Minister of Culture and Tourism Zoran Ljutkov is leading a Macedonian delegation at this year's Mondiacult, UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, through Oct. 1.

According to an official press release, Ljutkov will participate in two panel discussions, one on cultural rights and another on the economy of culture. He will speak about the state's efforts to advance cultural rights, support the arts and develop local creative industries.

Mondiacult is the world’s biggest cultural policy conference, bringing together thousands of participants to set the global agenda for culture in the years ahead. ​

Hosted by the Spanish government, the 2025 Mondiacult focuses on six themes around the challenges and opportunities for the future of culture: cultural rights; digital technologies in the culture sector; culture and education; economy of culture; culture and climate action; and culture, heritage and crisis.

Over the course of three days, government representatives of the 194 UNESCO member states will draw up a global agenda for culture and follow up on the objectives set at the previous Mondiacult, held in Mexico in 2022 and signed by 150 countries.

The conference is an opportunity to take stock of the national, regional and international achievements following the adoption of the Mondiacult Declaration, which defined a set of cultural rights that need to be guaranteed.

The declaration called for establishing culture "as a specific objective in its own right" in the post-2030 development agenda. mr/