Asia Pacific Region
WCC
Asia Pacific Region (APR)
The World Crafts Council-Asia Pacific Region (WCC-APR) forms the largest and most active part of the World Crafts Council (WCC). As it is the Daughter Organization of the Mother Organization, the World Crafts Council (WCC), it carries its traits of being a non-government with a NGO status at UNESCO.
The Asia Pacific Region covers the Asian countries stretching from the furthest West end (Lebanon, etc.), to the furthest East end (Japan, etc.), including from the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand and a constellation of islands in the South Pacific Ocean). Such a frame engulfs within the following six sub-regions:
West Asia: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE
Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
South-East Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
East Asia: China, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, Taiwan-China
South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand and the South-Pacific Islands
Objectives
The main objectives of the organization is to ensure the status in each country of the Asia Pacific Region as a vital part of the cultural scenario by developing and strengthening it.
1. To revive languishing crafts in these regions.
2. To improve the quality of life of the craftsperson of the Asia Pacific Region.
3. To enhance the quality of crafts.
4. To promote, develop, maintain, strengthen and ensure status of crafts as an
important medium of artistic expression.
5. To serve as an agency of co-operation between member countries in general.
6. To offer technical assistance by training courses, workshops and financial
assistance to craftspersons through the establishment of an Asia Pacific Craft
Fund.
7. To disseminate knowledge by lectures, seminars, etc.
8. To provide a network and fellowship among craftspersons of the various nations,
and to ensure that they are in communication with each other.
Regional Asia Pacific President
Email: aikramov.president.wccapr@gmail.com
Regional Asia Pacific Vice President
Dr. Xu Niansha
Email: xuns@poly.com.cn
Asia Pacific Region Secretariat:
Mr. Aziz Murtazaev
Email: ikatuz@gmail.com
Mr. Anvar Bahromov
Email: wccapr.sect.uz@gmail.com
Asia Pacific Region Website:
www.wccapr.org
