Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni welcomed India’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and culture Meenakshi Lekhi to her office as part of her official visit to Greece. At the Working Meeting, Proposals for joint cultural actions were discussed that will strengthen the strengthening of relations between the two countries in the fields of cultural heritage and contemporary culture.

The ministers ‘ discussion focused on the joint submission of transnational applications for inclusion in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage and on the cooperation of the two countries in the research and promotion of Underwater Antiquities. It was agreed to set up joint working groups and to assign experts from the two countries to investigate their common cultural origins and mutual influences, in order to form the files of the joint proposals. The cooperation between museum organizations of the two countries and the exchange of exhibitions between museums was also agreed.

It was a common observation that the two countries unite close cultural ties, as well as the appreciation and understanding between the two peoples, which creates the conditions for strengthening and exploiting bilateral relations in the field of Culture.