On Wednesday 12 June 2024, during his tour in the Australian city of Melbourne, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, met with a delegation from the Melbourne branch of the Assyrian Democratic Movement.
The meeting came to discuss our people’s cultural and national reality in the homeland, and the importance of preserving and developing the Syriac culture and language. During the meeting, Oghanna stressed that the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts’ doors are open to cooperating with all individuals and institutions related to our people in Iraq and the diaspora, with the aim of working to advance and develop the issue of Syriac culture in the homeland.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting the Australian city of Melbourne at the official invitation of the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies and the Suraya Cultural Forum, to talk about our people’s cultural and artistic scene in the homeland, through a number of events and meetings that bring him together with our expatriate people in Australia.