The global forum affirms the central role of culture
From September 29 to October 1, 2025, in Barcelona (Spain), the World Conference on Sustainable Development and Cultural Policy (MONDIACULT 2025) will take place chaired by UNESCO.
MONDIACULT 2025 is one of the most important forums in the world on culture, affirming culture as a direct contribution to the process of healing the wounds of war and conflict in the world, protecting, preserving and promoting precious spiritual assets and cultural heritages of humanity for future generations.
The central message of the Conference is "There is no future without culture". MONDIACULT 2025 affirms that culture is a basic human right, a global public commodity and an indispensable pillar to build a fair, peaceful, inclusive and sustainable society.
In particular, the Ministers of Culture of the countries attending the Conference also called for culture to become an independent goal (stand-alone goal) in the United Nations development framework after 2030, instead of just an integrated factor as before.
Vietnam contributes initiatives, shares experiences
After the opening ceremony and plenary session, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung attended the Minister's-level Discussion Session co-organized by UNESCO and the European Union (EU) with the theme "Culture, a catalyst for sustainable development: Promoting policies based on practice in the process of policy making".
Minister Nguyen Van Hung affirmed that the Party and State of Vietnam always pay special attention to the cause of cultural and human development, placing culture on par with economics and politics, making culture the focus of national policies and strategies on development, implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Vietnam attaches importance to policy making, including cultural policies based on practical situations, data, indicators and practical assessments to closely follow the needs and developments of the situation, better meeting the increasingly widespread integration needs of Vietnam, Minister Nguyen Van Hung emphasized.
Minister Nguyen Van Hung shared Vietnam's experience in the case of Trang An World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Ninh Binh). Vietnam has built policies based on practice and science.
Thereby, making Trang An a typical example of Vietnam in sustainable development, combining the implementation of international commitments on preserving and conserving heritage values with developing quality tourism, not chasing quantity.
At the same time, vulnerable groups, especially women in particular and the community in general, are directly participating in this process, directly enjoying the values from this process.
Speaking at the discussion session, the Ministers of the countries highly appreciated Vietnam for seriously implementing international commitments and successfully implementing models and initiatives such as in Trang An.
In particular, the Minister of Culture of Panama assessed Trang An as a typical model of combining tourism conservation and development.
Within the framework of the MONDIACULT Conference 2025, on the afternoon of October 1 (local time), Minister Nguyen Van Hung will continue to participate in the discussion session on Cultural Economy.
