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By the end of this year, the National Institute of Culture (INC) will finish a report to create the new Ministry of Culture, the director of that entity, Cecilia Bakula reported Sunday.

This proposal will depend on the number of meetings held since March this year with different people involved in cultural activities, she explained.

Under the sponsorship of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development (Aesid), the INC has held a number of meetings with cultural managers, archaeologists, artists, publishers and others, concerned with heritage and arts.

The goal is to collect proposals and ideas on what a cultural policy in the country should be.

Bakula said that the climax of this task would be in early December in the context of the First National Congress on Cultural Policy of Peru, which will systematize the ideas that have been collected in recent months.

The resulting document will be submitted to Congress by the INC to serve as the basis for the future Ministry of Culture.

Bakula said her proposal did not focus on details such as the budget that has to be assigned to the new institution or what the organizational calendar will be.

"The idea of these meetings is not to determine whether the Ministry of Culture has two or five secretaries", she said recalling that the aim was to create consensus on cultural policies.

News source: ANDINA