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Article: China, UN agencies launch project to protect ethnic minority cultures
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 27, 2009
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China, UN agencies launch project to protect ethnic minority
cultures
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A project to protect Chinese ethnic
minority cultures, jointly funded by the United Nations and the
Chinese government, was launched here Friday.
The joint project, the "China Culture and Development Partnership
Framework", will receive 6 million U.S. dollars from the UN-Spain
Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund and 1 million U.S.
dollars from the Chinese government over three years, said Khalid
Malik, UN Resident Coordinator in China.
The program will cover four provinces and regions: Qinghai,
Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region. It
has two aims, which ...