UNESCO’s Director-General: “The protection of heritage has become a humanitarian imperative and a security issue”
We are delighted to inform you that the full press release prepared by Europa Nostra was posted this morning on the UNESCO website.
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PRESS RELEASE
“The destruction of heritage is inseparable from the persecution of people. This is why we consider the protection of cultural heritage today as far more than a cultural issue. This has become a humanitarian imperative, and a security issue,” stated UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova yesterday in The Hague during the Europe Lecture 2016, organised by the European Lecture Weiterlesen