China, India to Set up Reciprocal Cultural Centers in Capitals

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China, India to Set up Reciprocal Cultural Centers in Capitals

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In accordance with the memorandum of understanding (MOU) and executive program signed Monday between China and India, the two countries have agreed to establish reciprocal cultural centers in their capitals.

China's Vice Minister of Culture, Meng Xiaosi, and India's Foreign Secretary, Kanwal Sibal, on behalf of their respective countries, signed the MOU on establishing reciprocal cultural centers in the capitals of China and India as well as an executive program on bilateral cultural cooperation.

In the executive program, China and India agreed that the two countries would foster exchanges and cooperation in the arts, education, youth and physical education, mass media and in the social sciences.

The two countries also agreed, in the executive program, to conduct cultural exchanges consisting of various delegations of writers, actors, artists and journalists to host broad-ranging cultural festivals.

According to the executive program, China and India vow to boost professional exchanges relating to the study of archives management and to dispatch archeologists to visit each other's most important archeological sites.

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