TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) Azerbaijans ambassador to Tehran has said the registered Tar in UNESCO by Azerbaijan as intangible heritage is totally Azeri.Cavan?ir Axundov told Mehr News during his visit to Mehr News Agency and Tehran Times News Paper that Iran could register in UNESCOmany items asintangible heritage.
The Tar instrument registered by Azerbaijan is a unique instrument which Azeri singers and players have wrought major changes on it, he added.
Asked by Mehr News about the registering of Tar as an Azeri musical instrument in UNESCO, he told thatSad?qcan, Azerbaijani song master and Tar-player had been working for long on the instruments common in the region and had greatly refined the instrument. Then living in Karabakh, added 6 strings to 5 strings of the common Tar instrument, and we registered the 11-stringed instrument in UNESCO, he said.
Iran is a wealthy country in terms of culture and natural resources and it could propose and register in UNESCO many cultural phenomenon; rug-weaving practices in Kerman, Isfahan, and Nayeen; local dishes in Khuzestan and Tabriz; civil architecture in Dezful, Qom, etc, he told Mehr News.
Axundov, who has a PhD in History, told that during his incumbency as Azerbaijans ambassador to Tehran, we had held Azerbaijans cultural week in Iran and Irans cultural week in Azerbaijan.
In mid-May 2014, we will hold Azerbaijans cultural week in Tehran, he also added.
About the airing of the serialized episodes of Shahriar in Azerbaijans state TV, he said that they would respect Iranian serialized movies, but complained that Iran had generally ignored the Azeri cinema products. We have common culture and we should improve the relations, he said.
By Mehr News Agency
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