For 70 years, the International Music Council has been involved in the promotion of music around the world and has focused on several objectives: to strengthen cooperation between music organisations, to encourage the free movement of musicians, musical works and knowledge, to preserve the diversity of musical cultures, to guarantee access to music for all and to protect its creators. The wide range of activities (assemblies, colloquiums, festivals and concerts, radio rostrums, records, books and magazines, awards, cooperation projects) and the vast community gathered around its principles reflect the vitality and the place of the IMC in music and more generally in the field of international cultural relations.