U.S. supports sending UNESCO mission to Palmyra when security situation allows - U.S. State Department
The United States supports the idea of sending a UNESCO mission to Syria's Palmyra and hopes that experts of this organization will thoroughly analyze the destruction there, the U.S. Department of State has said.
"We support a UNESCO mission composed of international experts, with appropriate expertise, to travel to Syria's damaged World Heritage sites when the security situation allows, to assess and analyze, by means of documentation and inventory, what is needed for preservation, restoration, and safeguarding, taking into account the overall objective of ensuring the long-term sustainability and integrity of these sites," Department of State spokesperson Noel Clay told Interfax.
"Any actual conservation work, aside from emergency interventions, must be part of a thoughtful and measured response, bearing in mind the results of the UNESCO expert mission's analysis," he said.
Advertising
Advertising
MORE ABOUT
Ukraine submits three elements of intangible cultural heritage for inclusion into UNESCO lists in 2023 – Culture Ministry
11:07, 02.02.2024
Ukraine elected vice-chair of UNESCO Cultural Heritage Committee in event of armed conflict
15:44, 16.12.2023
Culture Ministry counting on early inclusion of culture of cooking Ukrainian borsch in list of intangible cultural heritage
21:32, 07.12.2023
Ukraine becomes member of UNESCO World Heritage Committee – Culture Ministry
21:56, 22.11.2023
Culture Ministry, UNESCO cooperate to estimate damage caused to media by war
20:24, 20.11.2023
LATEST
Woman dead, two men wounded as Russian forces inflict airstrikes on Kharkiv – Synehubov
15:36, 03.05.2024
Sixty Ukrainian children to have rest in Azerbaijan – Kondratiuk
15:28, 03.05.2024
Enemy airstrike destroys several houses in Kharkiv, people under rubble – mayor
15:13, 03.05.2024
Ukrainian killed in Hungary as result of knife wound, suspect in crime detained – Ukrainian MFA
15:06, 03.05.2024
Zelenskyy in Khmelnytsky visits soldiers being treated after injuries