Iran, Venezuela call for cultural cooperation

Tehran, July 7, IRNA - Iran and Venezuela reached an agreement on cooperation in the fields of culture and information technology.

In a meeting with Iranian Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic
Guidance for Press Affairs Ali-Reza Malekian, Venezuelan Minister of
Information Hector Soto stressed Tehran-Caracas further cultural
relations.

Malekian, who is in Venezuela to attend the Seventh Conference of
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), said that domineering powers seek to
distort histories of other nations by imposing their own cultural
values on them.

So, he added, it was incumbent upon the independent countries to foil
such plots.

Stressing the role of cultural relations in strengthening bonds among
nations, he called for mutual cooperation in media, art and cinematic
fields to deepen the two countries' ties.

The Venezuelan information minister, for his part, expressed his
country's readiness for setting up a cultural committee to follow up
the implementation of the agreement.