Minister of Culture Monica Babuc had on March 17, in Paris, a meeting with Francesco Bandarin, the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture, its purpose being to promote multinational dossier „Cultural practices associated to the 1stof March” in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, common dossier of the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, there where it is a tradition to announce the arrival of spring wearing in the chest a Martisor.

Also, in the same day, Monica Babuc had met the Philippe Male, Director of the National Heritage Institute, which targeted the same objective to promote the same dossier.

In the context of visit to Paris it was organized a thematic cultural program to promote and celebrate the Martisor at the European level, which consisted of opening an  exceptional exhibition of trinkets at the Romanian Embassy in France and a concert sustained by Valy Boghean and his band.

At the event attended the ambassadors of Romania and the Republic of Moldova in France, Luca Niculescu and Lilian Moraru, Ministers of Culture of the Republic of Moldova and Romania, Monica Babuc and Ionut Vulpescu, UNESCO Romanian Ambassador, Adrian Cioroianu, and other ambassadors accredited in France, representatives of the French cultural environment and the Moldovan diaspora in Paris.