IRNA - The dossier of creating and playing the Iranian traditional musical instrument dotar (meaning �two strings� in Persian) which was submitted for inclusion in UNESCO�s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage is in evaluation stage, a cultural official said.

Iran submitted the dossier to UNESCO in a file titled �Traditional skills for making and playing the dotar�, the project manager and file compiler for the Iranian dotar, Behrouz Vojdani said.

According to Mehr News Agency, the file is Iran�s submission for 2019 and it has been translated into English and French languages. Because Iran has numerous files lined-up for registration and is among the world�s most active countries in this field, it can submit files to UNESCO once every three years.

Local to a number of Iranian provinces, such as Mazandaran, Golestan, North Khorasan, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi provinces, dotar will be the first folk musical instrument with such a wide popularity to get international status.

The results of the evaluation will be announced almost at the end of 2019 in a meeting that will be held in Colombia, Vojdani said.