The Saudi Assistant Minister of Culture, Rakan bin Ibrahim Al-Touq, met on Saturday with the Minister of Culture of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Margareth Menezes, in the Indian city of Varanasi.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the G20 Cultural Ministers' meeting, held in the Republic of India’s Varanasi.

Al-Touq congratulated the Brazilian Culture Minister for her country's assumption of the G20 Presidency 2024, underlying the importance of upholding the cultural agenda within the G20 to highlight the global creative cultural landsacpe and foster the exchange of expertise and information among member states.

During the meeting, the two sides also discussed ways to implement the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cultural cooperation between the two friendly countries signed in 2019.

They also went over opportunities to strengthen collaboration across diverse cultural domains.

Source: Saudi Press Agency