The General Assembly of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) unanimously adopted, on 3rd June 2004, a resolution strongly supporting the UNESCO project to create a binding legal instrument aimed at protecting the diversity of cultural contents and artistic expressions.

In this resolution, the ITI laid out a certain number of fundamental positions which define its viewpoint regarding the current process of globalisation and its consequences for culture. From this standpoint it has drafted some requests and wishes for the future convention. The following remarks on the draft Convention are based on the position and requests contained in the ITI resolution of June 3rd 2004. They were conceived in a spirit of open-mindedness and extensive dialogue with competent UNESCO authorities, the governments participating in the drafting of the convention as well as with the other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who like ourselves also support and accompany this process.

The German Centre is currently working on a collection of texts in German, English and French in order to give an overview on the ongoing debate.