PARIS, Sept 3 (Hina) - Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic and Croatian Ambassador to the UNESCO, Vesna Girardi-Jurkic, held talks in Paris on Wednesday with the director of the World Heritage Centre, Bernd von Droste, about the
protection of Croatian cultural monuments as a part of the world cultural heritage.
PARIS, Sept 3 (Hina) - Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic and
Croatian Ambassador to the UNESCO, Vesna Girardi-Jurkic, held talks in
Paris on Wednesday with the director of the World Heritage Centre, Bernd
von Droste, about the protection of Croatian cultural monuments as a part of
the world cultural heritage. #L#
Von Droste said that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee would
discuss Croatia's requests about placing the towns of Trogir, Pula and Porec
on the UNESCO protection list.
He said that the well-maintained old-Christian Euphrosyne Episcopal
complex with a valuable basilica situated in Porec's centre (north Adriatic).
Biskupic announced that he would forward information to the Heritage
Committee about monuments of northern and continental part of Croatia,
the Osijek fortress and the Veliki Tabor fortress.
Listed as protected cultural monuments so far are Dubrovnik,
Diocletian Palace in Split and the Plitvice National Park.
Girardi-Jurkic recalled that two UNESCO commissions would be
dispatched to eastern Slavonia and the Danubian area, one in charge of
cultural heritage and the other in charge of natural heritage. They are to +
visit
towns in eastern Slavonia and Baranja - Vukovar, Ilok, Osijek and Vinkovci.
The cultural heritage in the Vukovar-Srijem County and
reconstruction of the war-destroyed monuments in these four towns will be
presented at the exhibition "From Dove to Peace - Four Pearls of Eastern
Croatia" which will be opened on Wednesday evening at the UNESCO
centre in Paris on Wednesday.
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