The UN cultural agency UNESCO announced on Tuesday that it supports Ukraine’s request to include the port city of Odesa on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Reuters reports.
Following the meeting of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tkachenko, with the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulet, at the agency’s headquarters in Paris, UNESCO announced that it had mobilized experts to support Ukraine so that the nomination would be urgently considered by the member states of the World Heritage Committee.
UNESCO said it also wants to add Odesa to the endangered world heritage list, along with the endangered world heritage sites of Kyiv and Lviv.
The Odesa port is only a few tens of kilometers from the front line and has already suffered from artillery shelling, UNESCO said. Last month, part of the large glass roof and windows of the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts, opened in 1899, was destroyed.
Source: Hot News RU
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