\u201cThe images of the vestiges of Nimrod, destroyed by DAESH, are a call to action\u201d, declared Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro. \u201cDestruction of the past means hatred of the future\u201d, Giro continued, \u201cand therefore Italy has asked UNESCO to advance concrete and effective measures to halt such devastation of the world\u2019s heritage and illegal trafficking in artistic treasures, for the most part from Iraq, Syria and Libya, places that symbolise the history of humanity\u201d. A few days ago, the Executive Board of UNESCO unanimously approved a resolution proposed by Italy and signed by all EU countries and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Its intention is to raise international awareness of the urgency to arrest those responsible for these criminal acts against the symbols of the culture, religion, history and identity of the peoples that are identified with them.<\/p>\n
The Italian resolution calls upon UNESCO to explore and propose new legal mechanisms capable of containing, but above all preventing, the destruction of world heritage sites. It also proposes to establish \u201cprotected cultural areas\u201d around the World Heritage sites that are threatened. This initial step would oblige the international community to collectively assume responsibility for its shared history. A responsibility that should soon be accompanied by more effective measures by which to defend and combat against illegal trafficking \u2014 a source of income for DAESH \u2014 to be outlined within the UN Security Council. Within that framework, Italy has relaunched a proposal that UNESCO set up a force of \u201cblue helmets for culture\u201d and continue efforts to toward the recognition of ethnic minorities in crisis areas \u2014 such as Aleppo, the Christians in the Middle East and the Yezidis \u2014 as part of the world\u2019s common heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe images of the vestiges of Nimrod, destroyed by DAESH, are a call to action\u201d, declared Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro. \u201cDestruction of the past means hatred of the future\u201d, Giro continued, \u201cand therefore Italy has asked UNESCO to advance concrete and effective measures to halt such devastation of the world\u2019s heritage and illegal […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,404,399],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-sicurezza","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}